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Q: What is the predominant race in prison?

A: At the end of 2003 (the most recent year it was figured), in a demographic study of all inmates in state and federal prisons sentenced to one year or more, the prison population breakdown was as follows: 44 percent blacks, 35 percent whites, 19 percent Hispanics, and 2 percent other.

Q: Who has spent the most time in jail and is still behind bars?

A: Chicagoan William Heirens has served more time than any other prisoner in America. In 1946, he killed a little girl and two women in a case that shocked the world because of what he scrawled on a mirror in lipstick in one victim’s home: “For Heaven’s sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself.”

Q: Who holds the record for having served the most time in an American prison?

A: Paul Geidel holds the record for having served the most time behind bars in the U.S. Convicted of murder when he was seventeen, Geidel served sixty-eight years and seven months behind bars before being released to a nursing home to live out the remainder of his life.