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Tieckelmann and my Boston - Iferrier have a lot in common. When they grab onto something they will not let go! * . .On May 30 Ben Jones wrote a sensitive (and I thought nonicon troversial) article on the tragedy of a young person’s life lost in this county through a Jieroin overdose. A week later, we got a largely defensive response from Tieckelmann loaded with questionable statistics..
• : The source of “liars, damn liars and statistics “is not Twain fis commonly believed, but Disraeli as reader Pond pointed Trat-earlier in the spring. One of Tieckelmann’s stats is unhappily correct; the percentage of the world’s prisoners in US prisons.
Amnesty International does confirm the US has the dubious honor of being Number One at . 21-25 percent, which did aston; ish me and all the wiggling around about other countries simply shooting wrongdoers, tho§e being “reeducated”, the hupiber in the US awaiting charging or trials, etc. isn’t going to change the numbers that much but where •Tieckelmann exaggerates is the number in prison for drug ,pharges or convictions which is •more like 30 percent than 80 percent (since 1984, 400K of the JJ.2M in prisons are there for [dealing drags), though there is ‘probably some argument room jiiere as to motivation for crimi•6al activity.
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