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.
The U.S. rate is 500 prisoners per 100,000 residents, or about 1.6 million prisoners in 2010, according to the latest available data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). 1. Men make up 90 percent of the prison and local jail population, and they have an imprisonment rate 14 times higher than the rate for women. 2 And these men are overwhelmingly young: Incarceration rates are highest for those in their 20s and early 30s.