Prisoner statistics fun
Elder of Ziyon
12 January '10
A Palestinian Arab organization has released the shocking information that 197 Arab prisoners have died in Israeli prisons since 1967, thus proving Israeli human rights violations against its Arab prisoners.
Terrible!
Until you look at the normal mortality rate for Palestinian Arabs. According to the UN, the normal mortality rate is 3.7 per thousand. if we assume that Israel has imprisoned an average of 5000 Arabs (probably a low number) at any time over the past 42 years, then the number of expected deaths over that time period would be 777.
Ah, but you might object, prisoners are usually young and healthy, and their mortality rates should be much less than the general population!
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Love of the Land: Prisoner statistics fun
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