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jake-the-peg
I would expect just such an answer from you, you just can't help being totally obnoxious. Taking into account your attitude one could be excused from assuming that you yourself has at sometime been somewhat lawless.
These (mainly) youngsters who have joined the armed forces have been highly trained into fighting and killing. Then within weeks of their eighteenth birthday, they have been flown out into the hell holes of Iraq and Afghanistan, where their training has quickly been put into practice.
After many tours of combat, they are then sent back into society, with hardly any back-up in which to learn how to fit back into more peaceful surroundings. Some manage it with no bother, and are a credit to society, others unfortunately are not so lucky.
Seeing you are interested in the prison population numbers, perhaps you would care to study these figures, and perhaps make a similar comment.
Race and prison
Of all those sentenced to custody in the second quarter of 2005, one in five was from a minority ethnic group. 35 per cent of minority ethnic prisoners are foreign nationals. At 58 per cent, black prisoners account for the largest number of minority ethnic prisoners and their numbers are rising - whereas the prison population grew by just over 12 per cent between 1999 and 2002, the number of black prisoners increased by 51 per cent.