A report from a federal agency states that one out of every 20 persons in your state will serve time in prison during his or her lifetime. This breaks down into one of 11 men and one of 100 women. The agency also makes a further breakdown, by ethnicity and race. The figures below show how many men are in prison out of every hundred in the population: Men
Black: 28
Hispanic: 16
White: 4
Your editor sees the figures and wonders whether the racial-ethnic breakdown should be used. What do you tell him? |