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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 …
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 …
Publication • August 3, 2016
World Prison Population List (10th Ed), ICPS King’s College, 2013 World Prison Population List (tenth edition) Roy Walmsley Introduction This tenth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 222 independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in the level …
Article • January 13, 2015
Report Analyzes New Jersey Jail Population by Report Analyzes New Jersey Jail Population In partnership with the Drug Policy Alliance, Luminosity has issued a report that analyzes New Jersey’s jail population. The study’s goal “is to use this profile to identify opportunities to responsibly reduce New Jersey’s jail population while …
Publication • September 1, 2014
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
Prisoners in 2013 BJS 2014 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics September 2014, NCJ 247282 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician O n December 31, 2013, the United States held an estimated 1,574,700 persons in state and federal prisons, an increase of approximately 4,300 …
Brief • February 19, 2014
Filed under: Voting, Census
Davidson v. City of Cranston, RI, Complaint, Prisoners in Census Redistricting Scheme, 2014 Case 1:14-cv-00091-L-LDA Document 1 Filed 02/19/14 Page 1 of 9 PageID #: 1 ,.···-·Ftl E ED """'FtL 0 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLANftl~ fEB I q A 10: 25 Karen …
Publication • December 1, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
BJS Prison Population Report, 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2013, NCJ 243936 Bul l etin Correctional Populations in the United States, 2012 Lauren E. Glaze and Erinn J. Herberman, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians A t yearend 2012, the combined U.S. adult correctional …
Publication • December 1, 2013
BJS Report on 2012 Corrections Trends U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2013, NCJ 243920 Trends in Admissions and Releases, 1991–2012 E. Ann Carson and Daniela Golinelli, BJS Statisticians T he prisoner population in the United States in 2012 declined for the third …
Publication • July 1, 2013
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, Census
Prisoners in 2012 - Advance County BJS 2013 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics July 2013, NCJ 242467 E. Ann Carson and Daniela Golinelli, BJS Statisticians T he U.S. prison population declined for the third consecutive year, falling to an estimated 1,571,013 prisoners at …
Article • February 15, 2013 • from PLN February, 2013
In Memory of Jon E. Yount (1938-2012) by Peter Wagner Sometime in the early morning of April 26, 2012, in his cell in a remote Pennsylvania prison, a 74-year-old jailhouse lawyer serving a life sentence hung himself. He was a quiet man who avoided taking credit for his work, so …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Federal Court Upholds Maryland Law that Reclassifies Prisoners for Redistricting by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On December 23, 2011, a Maryland federal district court three-judge panel upheld a state law that counts prisoners as residents of their legal home address rather than their prison address for redistricting purposes. …
Article • December 15, 2012 • from PLN December, 2012
Momentum Builds to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering by Peter Wagner Four states and hundreds of local governments are standing up to reject one of the most repugnant aspects of the prison industrial complex: Legislators with prisons located in their districts who claim the people incarcerated there – who cannot vote – …
Article • December 15, 2010 • from PLN December, 2010
Maryland Law Counts Prisoners According to Pre-Incarceration Residence by Michael Rigby by Mike Rigby A new Maryland law – the first of its kind – changed the way state prisoners were counted in the 2010 census. Historically, prisoners have been counted according to the location of the facility where they …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Census
Pennsylvania Prisoners Counted as Residents of States in Which Prison Is Located by Pennsylvania Prisoners Counted as Residents of States in Which Prison is Located The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania did not err when …
Article • May 15, 2007
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Census
District of Columbia Challenges Census Bureau Enumerating Prisoners as Residents of Virginia by The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, held that the District of Columbia did not have standing to sue the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Census Bureau's having enumerated D.C. prisoners at the Lorton …
Article • November 15, 2004 • from PLN November, 2004
Prison Town Legislators Represent Prisoners' Interests? Not Quite by Peter Wagner On June 7, 2004, talks between the New York State Senate and the Assembly on how to best reform the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws broke down. Publicly, the dispute is over ideological disagreements, but an obscure Census quirk that …
Article • August 15, 2004 • from PLN August, 2004
Local Officials Tell Prisoners: "You don't live here" by Peter Wagner Many prison town officials are quick to claim prisoners as residents when the Census Bureau comes to town, but prisoners report that this is the only time these officials are so welcoming. The Census Bureau counts the nation's mostly …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Prisoners, Politics, Money and the Census by Gary Hunter It's a standing joke that the Texas economy has been grounded in the 3 C's: cattle, crude, and convicts. But while Texas gets most of the publicity for its massive prison build-up, the human-warehousing trend is literally sweeping the countrysideand it …
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Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Census
u.s. Census Report on Addresses of Prisoners, 2006 February 21, 2006 U.S. Census Bureau Report: Tabulating Prisoners at Their “Permanent Home of Record” Address This page intentionally left blank. Contents Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... i 1. Introduction........................................................................................................................1 2. Summary of Findings ........................................................................................................1 3. Background on Usual Residence ......................................................................................2 3.1 Legal Requirements …
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Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Census
Home in 2010, u.s. Census Report, 2006 “Home” in 2010: A Report on the Feasibility of Enumerating People in Prison at their Home Addresses in the Next Census Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law Kirsten D. Levingston & Christopher Muller Submitted to the U.S. Census Bureau February …
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