Re: US unemployment and incarceration rate

"the U.S. imprisons people at about ten times Europe's rate, and the
American male prison population of 1.3 million in 1993 equaled two percent
of the male labor force"

Tilly C. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Good and Bad Jobs in the United
States at the Millennium. Russell Sage Foundation (June 1996)
(http://epn.org/sage/rstil-jo.html)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis L. Blewitt" <Dennis.Blewitt@Colorado.EDU>
To: "WSN" <WSN@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 5:58 AM


> Does anyone have any estimate of what the US unemployment rate would be if
> the US incarceration rate were to return to 1960 levels and the drug war
> were to end?
>
>