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Yet there are more blacks than Hispanics in state prison for drug offenses, about 9,700 compared with 7,800 (there are 1,200 whites), according to Mr. Gangi.

Half a million people are now in prison or jail for drug offenses, about 10 times the number in 1980, and there have been especially sharp increases in incarceration rates for women and for people over 55, long past the peak age for violent crime.

Fifty-three per cent are serving sentences for violent offenses, and about nineteen per cent for property offenses, like burglary or larceny.

Pennington has talked to the offense about trusting the play-calling of the offensive coordinator Paul Hackett, telling the players that if they believe in what is called in the huddle, they can make it successful.

The Knicks still ran D'Antoni's offense about 80 percent of the time.

"He ran this offense about what, 20 years?" tight end Visanthe Shiancoe said.

In fact, the Knicks are still running D'Antoni's offense about 80 percent of the time, according to scouts.

He shoots his mouth off any time he takes offense, about as often as Old Faithful lets off steam.

But as Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, a research psychiatrist, writes in his book, "The Insanity Offense," about 1 percent of the seriously mentally ill (or about 40,000 individuals) are violent.

"We used to tease the offense about lack of production," said Doug Atkins, who was a 6-8, 255-pound dendnsive end on that '63 Chicago defensive unit, which starred middle linebacker Dick Butkus.

Cartoons in major publications here rarely approach the deliberate scabrousness of a publication such as Charlie Hebdo, with its seeming delight in provoking offense about taboo subjects such as religion.