Study links jailed vets, sex crimes
From Times Wire Reports
Military veterans in prison are more than twice as likely to have been convicted for sex offenses as non-veteran inmates, federal researchers say. They cannot say why.
A study 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% of the veterans in prison were sex offenders, compared with 9% of non-veteran inmates.
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