Articles by Josh Voorhees

A City of Convicts: The statistical sleight of hand that makes the U.S. crime rate seem lower than it really is

Loaded on June 2, 2015 by Josh Voorhees published in Prison Legal News June, 2015, page 20

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Staff-Prisoner Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Statistics/Trends, Failure to Protect (General), Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: United States of America.

A City of Convicts: The statistical sleight of hand that makes the U.S. crime rate seem lower than it really is

by Josh Voorhees

Imagine an American city with 2.2 million people, making it the fourth largest in the nation behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Now imagine that city is ...