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BJS Releases Statistics on Vets in Prison in 2004

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007 published in Prison Legal News December, 2007, page 40
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Veterans. Location: United States of America.

Veterans were about half as likely as non-veterans to be imprisoned in 2004, but more than twice as likely to be serving time for a sex offense, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said in a report released on May 20, 2007. Veterans were also more likely to have been ...

 

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