Half of Military Prisoners in USAF
I stumbled across an interesting presentation from earlier this year recently; a “command briefing” for the Navy’s Consolidated Brig Charleston. As the “consolidated” in the name suggests, the facility serves all branches of the military, as well as housing a few of those oh-so-plentiful “enemy combatants”. The presentation includes some interesting statistics about the prison population:
Yep, fully half of those incarcerated at this facility - one of just two such brigs in the country - are members of the United States Air Force. It has a third the personnel of the Army, but five times the number of members locked up at Charleston. Something tells me that’s something the flyboys would prefer to overlook. Props are due to the Coast Guard, who - despite having slightly more personnel than the Air Force (no, really) have just six percent as many of those men and women in the brig.
Interestingly, almost a third of all prisoners at this facility are there for drug-related offenses - and over a quarter for sex offenses. The latter is probably not too surprising, given the sorts of sex education our military personnel are given:
That image, incidentally, is from a Coast Guard legal presentation on acceptable (and unacceptable) behavior. Given how few Coasties wind up in the brig, perhaps these sorts of deeply contemplative PowerPoint slides actually work, and should be emulated by other services.
Seriously, though; what’s up with the Air Force, eh?
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