When I had this conversation with the @NewYorker a couple days ago, no one in my dad’s prison had tested positive.
Now they have. Time is of the essence.
This pandemic made it clearer than ever that mass incarceration must end. Public health & public safety depend on it.
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Majority of Americans currently or formerly have had immediate family members incarcerated.
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So, there are 707 per 100,000 in the system. Which means that there are 999,293 per 100,000 who aren't. How does this support Boudin's claim that a "majority" of us have family members in prison?
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US currently incarcerates 2.3MM (way too many, I agree), but there are ~129MM households in the US. For the majority of households to have at least 1 member incarcerated, we would need 65MM prisoners minimum. For
@chesaboudin to not be a liar, we better start imprisoning & fast.pic.twitter.com/5sAngFJXBD
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To be fair, no-one told Chesa that there would be math in the job.
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Just so we’re clear, the “math” offered above, estimating that 65MM Americans would need to be incarcerated for Chesa’s stmt to be true, is wrong in every possible respect. Just dead wrong.
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The estimate of 65 mm requires almost maximum entropy (ie, that one and only one member per household s in prison). It presumes a lot of other things as well. But Chesa’s claim is embarrassingly wrong.
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I tried to construct the best case scenario for Chesa’s claim by spreading out the incarceration among as many households as possible. Since the claim is about the “majority of families,” having multiple incarcerated person per household would actually work against his claim.
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Another way I tried to help his claim was by assuming that each household is a different family, which is not necessarily correct. A single extended family may be spread across multiple households, but I was trying to give Chesa as much opportunity to not lie as possible.
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