Experts Alarmed At Link Between Prison Numbers and Dwindling Crime

Experts Alarmed At Link Between Growing Prison Numbers and Dwindling Crime Not to sound elitist ... okay, I am elitist but I don't want to sound that way ... but interpretations like this are why all usage of statistics should be pre-approved by me. Reuters is concerned that "The U.S. prison population, already the largest in the world, grew by 1.9 percent in 2004, leaving federal jails at 40 percent over capacity, according to Justice Department figures released on Sunday" even though the "U.S. prison population continued to grow last year even though reports of violent crime during 2004 were at the lowest level since the government began compiling statistics 32 years ago, according to a government report released in September." This is like the editors at Reuters apparently not understanding that their degree of drunkenness while working was continuing to grow even though the liquor in the bottle was at the lowest level since they opened it. Article Here