Prison rates far lower for immigrants, study finds
"Immigrants in California, including those without documents, are "far less likely" than the native-born to end up incarcerated for crimes, according to a study released Monday by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Analyzing prison records, researchers found that native-born men in California are incarcerated in state prisons at rates that are 2 1/2 times greater than the foreign-born.
Immigrants are 35 percent of California's adult population, the study notes, but only 17 percent of the state's prison population."
SUSAN FERRISS in the Sacramento Bee.