STUDY: 23% OF VETS IN PRISON ARE SEX OFFENDERS

PFMLIT ARMED FORCES, General, MILITARY VETERANS, SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS IN POSITIONS OF TRUST, STATISTICS ON SEX ABUSE, STATISTICS VICTIM

The government reports that military veterans in prison are more than twice as likely to have been convicted for sex offenses than non-veteran inmates.  A study released yesterday 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 than the overall male population in the first place, but 23 percent of the veterans in prison are sex offenders, compared with 9 percent of non-veteran inmates.  

(Washington)