What does area mean in math and what is length times wighth? well, area means the inside e of something exterior of any figure and length times with is the area of an rectangle. Edit
Over 60% of people in American prisons may have been convicted of non-violent crime s, but 46% of Americans say that they think the main purpose of prison is to take violent criminals off the streets.0% of the country says that too many people who have committed crimes are imprisoned in the US, while 13% says that the incarceration rate is about right. 26% think that too few people are imprisoned.
However, nearly 10% of African American males ages 25-29 are in prison. Nearly 8% of African American males between the ages of 18 and 39 are in prison. The mass incarceration of African Americans is a direct consequence of the War on Drugs.y 'War on Drugs' I mean the anti-drug policies and law enforcement practices commenced by the Reagan administration in the fall of 1982 and continued by the Bush and Clinton administrations until at least the end of the year 2000.