Subject: Re: CNN does real journalism
But according to this board soooo many of them are never even charged! How does that square?

Because we're talking about two different populations.

Of all the people who are arrested - the ones in the "jail hallways" - most of them don't get charged or convicted. Because the police arrest a lot of people on suspicion of crime, or for minor crimes that don't get charged.

Of people who are convicted and have served their term in prison, by definition all of them have been charged and convicted of a crime.