Corrections log, October 2026
4 entries, newest first. Each is also noted, with its date, on the post it changes. How we correct errors, the newest entries and every other month are on the corrections page.
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Voting and the Democratic Process: An earlier version of this post said 84.3% of eligible voters were registered in 2012. That figure is 2012 turnout among registered voters. Census Bureau survey data show about 71% of voting-age citizens were registered. The post also said about 57 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2016 presidential primary. It now gives turnout in the 2016 general election: about 60 percent of eligible voters, per the UF Election Lab.
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Corrections Reform: What Works, What Fails, and What It Costs: An earlier version of this post credited the Bureau of Justice Statistics for a count of roughly 2 million people behind bars at the end of 2023. The bureau counts about 1.85 million people in state or federal prisons or local jails at that date. Nearly 2 million is the Prison Policy Initiative's 2025 count, which adds immigration detention, juvenile facilities and other confinement. The post now gives both figures, each credited to its source.
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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Is Illogical: An earlier version of this post gave Oklahoma's rate of positive drug tests as 8.8 percent. The Snopes article it cites gives 8.9 percent: 297 of the 3,342 applicants the state screened from 2012 to 2014 tested positive. The post now says 8.9 percent.
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Corrections Reform: What Works, What Fails, and What It Costs: An earlier version of this post showed an image that labeled the Prison Policy Initiative's estimate of at least $182 billion a year "Total corrections costs" and carried a drafting subtitle. The image and its note are now replaced by figures labeled as their sources define them and a chart of reincarceration rates.