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Notable numbers: Beach-driving permits, Franklin Graham and solitary confinement


Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com

26,000 The number of permits the N.C. Park Service sold between Oct. 1, 2014, and Aug. 3, 2015, to drive on beaches

$2 million How much money permits raised

24 The number of unarmed black men shot and killed by police nationally as of Tuesday – a rate of one every nine days

1,470 The number of North Carolina children enrolled in Virtual Academy, an online school starting up this month

1,404 The number enrolled in Connections, another online school

446 The number of private schools identified by Opportunity Scholarship applicants as schools they planned to attend

332 The number of those schools that are religious

194 The number of those schools not accredited by any agency

$622,252 What Franklin Graham was paid in 2013 to lead Samaritan’s Purse

$452,568 What Carolyn Mills made to run Save the Children

$477,043 What Richard Stearns made to lead World Vision

90 The percentage of North Carolina inmates who are released at some point

31 The percentage of those inmates who are released directly from solitary confinement

5,300 The number of inmates out of the 38,000 total population who are segregated away from the regular population for 23 to 24 hours a day

20 The percentage of those inmates who should be receiving treatment for mental health issues

This story was originally published August 14, 2015 at 5:46 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Beach-driving permits, Franklin Graham and solitary confinement."

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