When he first teased the prisons segment on the Nov. 4, 2003, broadcast, Mr. Dobbs said, “One-third of the inmates now serving time in federal prisons come from some other country — one-third.” But later he was less precise: “We’re going to take a further look at the impact of illegal aliens. And it is an expensive proposition, particularly in our nation’s prisons. Illegal aliens, those citizens — noncitizens taking up a third of the cells in our federal penitentiaries.”
In his online sidebar, Mr. Leonhardt cited a Bureau of Justice Statistics report showing that just 24% of federal inmates were noncitizens in 2001 — not 29.3%, as Mr. Dobbs said last night, nor one-third, as he said in 2003. Mr. Dobbs was citing numbers from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which don’t exactly match up.
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/counting-noncitizens-in-us-prisons-117/
2007-06-27
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