RE: The under represented Atheist prison population claim.
November 17, 2010 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2010 at 8:19 pm by Buddy Lee.)
Just to update the thread with new statistics, in 2010, atheists represented .08% of the U.S. federal prison population, while they represent about 1.6% of the general U.S. population (http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report...y-full.pdf [at page 5]).
The raw data is here: http://bornatheist.com/files/Federal_pri...istics.pdf
A press release is here: http://bornatheist.com/pprison.html
There is nothing to show causation in these statistics, but it sure must stick in the craw of religious people who claim atheists are "the greatest of evils," to find so few of them in prison.
The raw data is here: http://bornatheist.com/files/Federal_pri...istics.pdf
A press release is here: http://bornatheist.com/pprison.html
There is nothing to show causation in these statistics, but it sure must stick in the craw of religious people who claim atheists are "the greatest of evils," to find so few of them in prison.
