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loteck on June 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010)

18% of federal inmates. 75% of immigration inmates. Miniscule?

refurb on June 18, 2017 [–]

Federal prisoners are about 10% of all inmates. So yes, I would call 1.8% of federal inmates in private prisons miniscule.

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