And your point Chris?
9% of the prison population is highly signifcant when compared with the percentage of ex-servicemen in the population at large. Given a military population of less than 200,000 the number of ex-servicemen amongst the 25 million work force in UK is minute.
There was a possibly more alarming percentage of immigrants in the prison population. If we measured the percentage of ex-servicemen in prison against the indigenous prison population the figures would be even starker.