In fact, the gifted may comprise as much as 20% of prisoners, according to Marylou Kelly Streznewski’s Gifted Grown Ups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential.
I don't trust this article. If about 2% of people are gifted, for 20% of prisoners to be gifted, the gifted would have to be 10 times over-represented among prisoners. In reality, the chance of being incarcerated is negatively correlated with IQ, as documented in The Bell Curve, for example.
Helping 2E people is fine, but don't pretend that doing so would substantially reduce the prison population.
