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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Something About the Job?

You'll like it here. We're a pretty disobedient bunch.

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Submitted for your consideration (''Study: 1 in 4 Vets in Prison are Sex Offenders.'') Ranger has no comment.

Military veterans in prison are more than twice as likely to have been convicted for sex offenses as nonveteran inmates, federal researchers say. They cannot say why.

A study released Sunday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics compared the populations of inmates who served in the military and those who did not

Veterans are half as likely to be incarcerated as those without service experience in the first place, researchers found, but 23 percent of the veterans in prison were sex offenders, compared with 9 percent of nonveteran inmates

"We couldn't come to any definite conclusion as to why," said Margaret E. Noonan, one of the study's authors.

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