Today's headlines are full of reports about thousands of prisoners being released from federal prisons. It's interesting how one simple fact can be used to cover the entire spectrum of mass media while so many facts are left unreported.
Here are some of those facts:
1) Roughly 1,830 inmates are released from prison every day. That means these 6,000 mentioned would amount to roughly three and a half days of normal operations. (The release of those inmates will in fact occur over a three-day period.)