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That’s showing 120 murders across just sate prisons. “ 1,291,000 people were in state prison, 631,000 in local jails, 226,000 in federal prisons, 44,000 in youth correctional facilities, 42,000 in immigration detention camps, 22,000 in involuntary commitment, 11,000 in territorial prisons, 2,500 in Indian Country jails, and 1,300 in United States military prisons.[8]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

So it’s 1 in 10,000 per year aka a 1 in 500 shot of being murdered in a 20 year prison sentence which seems dangerous but still unlikely.




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