Dramatic Numbers

Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Marc Parry reviews sociologist Alice Goffman's (daughter of famous sociologist Erving Goffman) book "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City." The whole review is interesting, check out this quote:

About 35 percent of black male high-school dropouts under age 40 are now behind bars (snip) compared with an incarceration rate of 0.7 percent for the population as a whole.

I had no idea the numbers were that dramatic. If 35 percent are incarcerated at any given time, almost all black male high-school dropouts will spend time behind bars at some point in their teens and twenties.