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Publication • August 19, 2016
Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity, Sentencing Project, 2007 Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity Marc Mauer and Ryan S. King July 2007 For further information: The Sentencing Project 514 10th St. NW Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20004 (202) 628-0871 www.sentencingproject.org This …
Publication • August 18, 2016
Reducing our Use of Private Prisons, DOJ Yates memo, August 18, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Deputy Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20530 The Deputy Attorney General August 18, 2016 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ACTING DIRECTOR FEDERAL BU~~y OF PRISONS FROM: SallyQ. Yates~ Deputy Attorney General SUBJECT: Reducing our …
Publication • August 12, 2016
World Prison Population List (4th Ed.), Home Office, 2003 188 Findings The Research, Development and Statistics Directorate exists to improve policy making, decision taking and practice in support of the Home Office purpose and aims, to provide the public and Parliament with information necessary for informed debate and to publish …
Publication • August 12, 2016
World Female Imprisonment List, ICPS King’s College, 2006 World Female Imprisonment List International Centre for Prison Studies (Women and girls in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees/ remand prisoners) Roy Walmsley Key points The World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions, as pre-trial …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
World Prison Population List (11th Ed), WPB ICPR, 2015 World Prison Population List eleventh edition Roy Walmsley Introduction This eleventh edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 223 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in …
Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade - A National Study, Swaner et al, 2016.pdf The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade: A National Study Author(s): Rachel Swaner, Melissa Labriola, …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Changes in State Imprisonment - Update, Brennan Center for Justice, 2016 Update: Changes in State Imprisonment Lauren-Brooke Eisen and James Cullen Today, there are 2.3 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails — a 500 percent increase over the last forty years. With almost one in 100 American adults …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Increases in police use of force in the presence of body-worn cameras are driven by officer discretion, Ariel et al, 2016 J Exp Criminol DOI 10.1007/s11292-016-9261-3 Report: increases in police use of force in the presence of body-worn cameras are driven by officer discretion: a protocol-based subgroup analysis of ten …
Publication • August 12, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Statistics/Trends
National Survey of Prison Health Care - Selected Findings, NHSR, 2016 National Health Statistics Reports Number 96  July 28, 2016 National Survey of Prison Health Care: Selected Findings Karishma A. Chari, M.P.H., Alan E. Simon, M.D., Carol J. DeFrances, Ph.D., National Center for Health Statistics; and Laura Maruschak, M.A., …
Article • August 10, 2016
Report: Decreases in U.S. Jail Population Slowed By California's Realignment by Joe Watson Exponential increases in the U.S. jail population over the past 20 years appear to have leveled off and even reversed slightly, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported …
Article • August 10, 2016
Prisoners Getting Retroactive Relief Have Lower Recidivism Rate by Derek Gilna One of the main objections raised to granting retroactive sentence relief under the 2007 Crack Cocaine Amendment was the fear that those prisoners receiving sentence reductions would recidivate at a high rate.  A new study by the U.S. Sentencing …
Article • August 10, 2016
Justice Department Says 45% of Prisoners Have Mental Health Issues by Derek Gilna A 2006 Justice Department concluded that 45% of prisoners in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) have mental health problems, which was characterized as a recent manifestation of mental illness or symptoms of a disorder. According to the …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Number of Dutch Prisoners, and Crime Rate, Continue to Fall by Derek Gilna In a development not likely to happen any time soon in the United States, the Dutch government has announced that there are currently more guards in their prison system than prisoners. The drop in prisoners coincides with …
Article • August 10, 2016
BJS Recidivism Study Shows Most Re-arrests Occur Within Three Years by Derek Gilna A Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) study of state prisoner recidivism from 2005 to 2010 showed that “67.8% of the 404,638 state prisoners released in 2005 in 30 states were arrested within 3 years of release, and …
Article • August 10, 2016
More Pregnant, Mentally Ill Women Incarcerated in State Prisons Nationwide by Joe Watson More women are being sent to prison nationwide at astonishing rates that surpass any other demographic. What's more, they are forced to deal with issues men don't, including pregnancy behind bars and a higher likelihood of mental …
Article • August 10, 2016
Use of Death Penalty Trending Downwards by In its year-end report, the Washington, D.C., based Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) reported that there were 43 executions and 78 new death sentences in 2012, continuing a generally downward trend that began in the mid-1990s. As of April 1, 2012, there were …
Article • August 9, 2016
Significant Lack of Mental Health Treatment for United States Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis Mental health disorders are common for individuals who are incarcerated. In fact, according to a 2012 study by the National Institutes of Health, 26 percent of prisoners identified as having a mental health disorder while only 18 …
Article • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Medical, Statistics/Trends
Bureau of Justice Study Statistics Show Depth of Prisoner Health Issues by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna A special report issued by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in February, 2015 documents what prison rights advocates have known for years, that “half of state and federal prisons and local jail …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Stemming the Tide - Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System, Urban Institute, 2013 Stemming the Tide: Strategies to Reduce the Growth and Cut the Cost of the Federal Prison System Julie Samuels Nancy La Vigne Samuel Taxy November 2013 Stemming the Tide: …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates, DOJ BJS, 2006 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report September 2006, NCJ 213600 Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates Doris J. James and Lauren E. Glaze BJS Statisticians At midyear 2005 more …
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