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I’ll give you a clue. It’s got three syllables and rhymes with the word "horror."

No, not Nevada. Florida, dummy.

According to a recent study by the Associated Press, there are 63 Florida inmates unaccounted for by the American prison system. That’s three times more than the next state to provide data (Alabama) and a proto-Australia-level of convicts just walking around not behind bars.

The AP goes on to explain how it arrived at the horrifying statistic:

The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported about 2,000 state and federal inmates escaped or went off without leave in 2013. But the figure doesn’t indicate how many were caught and does not distinguish between breaking out of prison and walking away from work release or other unfenced settings.

The AP asked all states for a current total of escapees from secure, locked state prisons where they were held full time. California, the most populous state, and Ohio couldn’t immediately provide an answer, and others responded only for recent decades, so the total is almost certainly higher than the 224 the AP counted.

Sleep well, America.