There were 261,000 rapes and sexual assaults in the United States, in the year 2000. Seventy-two percent of those were never reported, of those reported, there is a fifty percent chance of an arrest, an eighty percent chance that the sexual offender will be prosecuted, and fifty-eight percent of those prosecuted will receive a felony conviction. If there is a felony conviction, only sixty-nine percent of those felons spend any time in prison; in total there is only a sixteen-point-three percent chance that any rapists or sexual harassers spend a day in jail at all. Those statistics are from the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network. …
