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Article • June 15, 2000 • from PLN June, 2000
Colorado Prison Population Exploding by Bob Williams Last summer the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, John Suthers, announced to the Colorado Legislature that Colorado's male prison population is growing at its fastest rate ever. In fact, at an average of 1.3% per month in the second quarter …
Article • October 15, 1998 • from PLN October, 1998
Serious Crime Down Again by For the sixth year in a row, serious crime rates fell during 1997, particularly in the Northeastern states, and big cities, according to recent Justice Department figures. In a survey of 16,000 city, county and state agencies, the overall rate of serious crime fell by …
Article • April 15, 1998 • from PLN April, 1998
BJS Reports Prison Litigation Statistics by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released the report Prisoner Petitions in the Federal Courts, 1980-96 in October, 1997. According to the report, the rate at which state and federal prisoners filed petitions in U.S. district courts (habeas and section 1983 petitions combined) fell …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
BJS Reports on Sentencing and Imprisonment by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released two reports that may interest PLN readers: Prisoners in 1996 (NCJ 164619, June 1997) and Felony Sentences in the United States, 1994 (NCJ 165149, July 1997). The report on prisoners provides state-by-state (and federal) prison population …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
Education as Crime Prevention: Providing Education to Prisoners by Dan Pens I lost count of the number of people who have written me to ask if I know where they can find statistics on the impact of prison-based education programs on recidivism. After congress eliminated Pell grants for prisoners in …
Article • January 15, 1998 • from PLN January, 1998
A Matter of Fact by [Editor's Note: This will be the last "A Matter of Fact" column. Many of you have written to praise the column but others have complained that: 1) it's a waste of space, and 2) its hard to digest an entire page of facts and figures …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
GAO Reports Available: Federal and State Prisons by Julia Lutsky Federal and State Prisons: "Inmate Populations, Costs and Projection Models," November 1996, GAO/GGD-97-15 Private and Public Prisons: "Studies Comparing Operational Costs and/or Quality of Service," August 1996, GAO/GGD-96-158 Reflecting both the relatively recent "get tough on crime" and the age-old …
Article • December 15, 1997 • from PLN December, 1997
A Matter of Fact by The U.S. adult population increased 19 percent from 1980-95 (from 163.5 million to 194 million), while the U.S. adult prison population increased 237 percent during the same period (from 319,598 to 1,078,545). According to Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) figures, "drug offenders" constituted 26 percent …
Article • November 15, 1997 • from PLN November, 1997
A Matter of Fact by The 1987 Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual had 325 pages. In 1988 there were 225 federal sentencing appeals. The 1996 Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual had ballooned to 1,137 pages. In 1995 there were 8,731 federal sentencing appeals. There were 41 federal prisons constructed between 1900 and …
Article • October 15, 1997 • from PLN October, 1997
A Matter of Fact by The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) crime index for 1996 (preliminary figures) showed an overall crime rate decrease of 3 percent. Violent crime decreased 7 percent. It was the largest single-year drop since 1982, and marks the fifth consecutive year that UCR crime rates have …
Article • September 15, 1997 • from PLN September, 1997
A Matter of Fact by 1996 study of juvenile homicide arrests (National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, and the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice) revealed that six states: Florida, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Texas, and California accounted for 56 percent of juvenile homicide arrests in 1993. The report also …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
A Matter of Fact by A 15-year study of 1,300 sex offenders who were arrested in 1973, conducted by the California Dept. of Justice, found that 19.7 percent were re-arrested for a subsequent sex-offense. That figure may seem low, so in a dazzling example of statistical hocus-pocus, the study concluded …
Article • July 15, 1997 • from PLN July, 1997
From the Editor by Dan Pens Prison population growth is an oft-cited statistic. Since most PLN readers are either imprisoned or otherwise closely involved with the U.S. "corrections" industry, it is easy for them to readily appreciate the concrete (and steel) meaning of prison population stats. Here is a familiar …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
A Matter of Fact by Between 1984 and 1994, the number of non U.S. citizens serving time in a federal prison increased an average of 15 percent annually, from 4,088 to 18,929. The overall federal prison population, by contrast, increased an average of 10 percent annually, from 31,105 to 87,437. …
Article • April 15, 1997 • from PLN April, 1997
A Matter of Fact by New York City jails have an average daily population of 20,000. Cigarettes sell for $2.36 a pack, and city jails sell about 8,000 packs per day (not counting weekends) for a total of nearly $5 million in annual cigarette sales. A proposed ban on smoking …
Article • March 15, 1997 • from PLN March, 1997
A Matter of Fact by The Maryland State Police Drug Interdiction Squad, an all white unit, has been warned by senior state police officials to be "impartial" after the Associated Press reported that 75 percent of the drivers stopped and searched on Interstate-95 are black. More than 90 percent of …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Prison Population Growth in 1995 by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, Prison and Jail Inmates, 1995, an estimated 1,585,400 persons were incarcerated in the U.S. at year end 1995. The state and federal prison population topped a million (1,078,357) with an additional 507,044 in local jails. The …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Habeas Corpus Study by Review by Jon Marc Taylor A recent discussion paper published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports the results of the National Center for State Courts analysis into the processing of federal habeas corpus petitions. The study encompassed 18 Federal district courts located in 9 selected …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Prison Health Report Issued by The National Institute of Justice, a branch of the Department of Justice, has published a 125 page booklet titled "Managing Prison Health Care and Costs." The book provides an overview of rising prison health care costs with national examples of various cost containment strategies. The …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
From the Inside Looking Out by Jon Marc Taylor The late Malcom Forbes once said it was "more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it." Brookings Institute senior fellow Dr. John J. DiIulio has certainly arrived at a conclusion, but his justifications range from questionable to outright …
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