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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 …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Mental Health and Treatment of Inmates and Probationers, DOJ BJS, 1999 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report Mental Health and Treatment of Inmates and Probationers By Paula M. Ditton BJS Statistician At midyear 1998, an estimated 283,800 mentally ill offenders were incarcerated …
Publication • August 9, 2016
The Poor Get Prison - The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty, Dolan and Carr, 2015 THE POOR GET PRISON The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty by Karen Dolan with Jodi L. Carr Lead Author: Karen Dolan is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Public Safety, Public Spending - Forecasting America's Prison Population 2007-2011, Pew Charitable Trust, 2007 Public Safety, Public Spending Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007–2011 About the Public Safety Performance Project n operating project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Public Safety Performance Project seeks to help states advance fiscally sound, datadriven …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Data Reliability - State Agencies’ Computer-Generated Data Varied in Their Completeness and Accuracy, California State Auditor, 2010 CALIFORNIA STATE AUDITOR Bureau of State Audits Data Reliability State Agencies’ Computer-Generated Data Varied in Their Completeness and Accuracy August 2010 Report 2010-401 The first five copies of each California State Auditor report …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Ending Mass Incarceration - Charting New Justice Reinvestment, Austin et al, 2014 Ending Mass Mass Ending Incarceration Incarceration ChartingaaNew NewJustice Justice Charting Reinvestment Reinvestment A paper co-authored by a group of researchers, analysts, and advocates dedicated to ending mass incarceration in the U.S. ENDING MASS INCARCERATION: CHARTING A NEW JUSTICE …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Overview of Federal Criminal Cases Fiscal Year 2015, USSC, 2016 Overview of Federal Criminal Cases Fiscal Year 2015 U N I T E D STAT E S SE N T E NC I NG COM M ISSION United States Sentencing Commission One Columbus Circle, N.E. Washington, DC 20002 www.ussc.gov Patti …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Disabled Behind Bars - The Mass Incarceration of People With Disabilities in America’s Jails and Prisons, CAP, 2016 AP PHOTO / RICH PEDRONCELLI Disabled Behind Bars The Mass Incarceration of People With Disabilities in America’s Jails and Prisons By Rebecca Vallas July 2016 W W W.AMERICANPROGRESS.ORG Disabled Behind Bars The …
Article • August 4, 2016
State Indigent Legal Costs Hold Steady at $2.3 billion in Past Year by Derek Gilna State-paid expenditures for indigent defendants’ legal fees held steady in fiscal year 2012, the last year for which statistics are available.  In 2012, according to the newest report by the Bureau of Justice (BJS) statistics, …
Jails Sell Prisoners E-Cigarettes, a Gateway to Drug Addiction by As jail officials across the country market e-cigarettes to prisoners at profit margins topping 400 percent, a new study suggests that these “pure nicotine-delivery devices” may actually be a “gateway drug” to cocaine and other serious drug addictions. E-cigarettes use …
Article • August 4, 2016
California, New York & New Jersey Crime Rates & Prisoners Plunge by Mark Wilson As the nation’s prison population increased 10 percent, from 1.2 million prisoners in 1999 to 1.3 million in 2012, the New York and New Jersey prison populations dropped 26 percent, according to a report released by …
Article • August 4, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime Statistics for Texas Prison System Unchanged by Matthew Clarke The crime rate in Texas prisons has remained about the same despite a decrease in prisoner population of about 9,000 over the past ten years. Since 2009, 3,001 Texas prisoners and 584 Texas prison guards have been charged with crimes …
Article • August 4, 2016
Alaskan Prisoner Deaths under Scrutiny by Matthew Clarke The Alaskan state legislature held a hearing in July 2014 after five Alaskan prisoners died between April and June of that year. According to Joe Schmidt, director of the Alaska Department of Corrections, the 2010 national prisoner death rate was .217% and …
Report Finds Fiscal Crisis of Increasing Low-Risk, High-Cost Older Prisoners by Matthew Clarke A report released by the Osborne Association found American prisons facing a crisis of aging in which an increasing percentage of older prisoners who are at low risk for recidivism are driving up the cost of running …
Report Finds Criminal Justice Debt Creates Barriers to Offender Reintegration by David Reutter Severe financial obligations imposed upon offenders who get entangled with the criminal justice system "perpetually punish many ex-offenders and consign them to a life of permanent debt and poverty," concludes a report published by the John Jay …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Aging Behind Bars, Urban Institute, 2014 Aging Behind Bars Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System KiDeuk Kim Bryce Peterson August 2014 Acknowledgments This report was prepared with intramural support from the Urban Institute. The authors would also like to acknowledge the insightful advice and support …
Publication • August 4, 2016
What Caused the Crime Decline?, Brennan Center for Justice, 2015 brennan center for justice WHAT CAUSED THE CRIME DECLINE? Dr. Oliver Roeder, Lauren-Brooke Eisen, and Julia Bowling Foreword by Dr. Joseph E. Stiglitz Executive Summary by Inimai Chettiar Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law ABOUT …
The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly, ACLU 2012 At A m e r i c a’ s E x p e n s e : The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly At Ame r i ca’s E x p en se: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly June 2012 At …
Article • August 3, 2016
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Minus California's 'Realignment,' U.S. Prison Population Increased in 2011 by For those parroting a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report that claims decreases in the numbers of prisoners nationwide for the second consecutive year, they should read the fine print. The BJS' National Prisoner Statistics report-released in December 2012-boasts …
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