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Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
Death Sentences, Executions Remain at Low Levels by Justin Miller According to a report released by the Death Penalty Information Center last December, there were 78 new death sentences imposed in 2011, down significantly from 104 in 2010 and the fewest new death sentences since capital punishment was reinstated in …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
California Study Finds State Prison Overcrowding Driven by County Policy Decisions, Not Violent Crime Rates by A June 2011 study by Santa Clara University criminal law professor W. David Ball examines the extent to which overcrowding in California’s prisons is a function of decisions made at the county level about …
ACLU Report Proves Smart Criminal Justice Policy Reform is Possible by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The American Civil Liberties Union released a report in August 2011 that calls for reforming the U.S. criminal justice system. The report makes recommendations for systematic reforms, front-end reforms and back-end reforms; it …
Article • June 15, 2012 • from PLN June, 2012
No Budget Cuts for Federal Prisons by James Ridgeway by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella In the midst of an epic budget battle that could transform the American landscape for decades to come, the White House and Republicans in Congress appear to agree on one point: Federal prisons need more …
Publication • 2012
Capital Punishment Statistical Trends BJS 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised August 29, 2014 Bureau of Justice Statistics Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician A t yearend 2012, 35 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons held 3,033 inmates under sentence of death, which was 32 fewer …
Publication • 2012
Filed under: Victims, Statistics/Trends
Criminal Victimization Crime Rates Summary BJS 2012 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics October 2013, NCJ 243389 Jennifer Truman, Ph.D., Lynn Langton, Ph.D., and Michael Planty, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians I n 2012, for the second consecutive year, violent and property crime rates increased for …
BJS - Facility-level and Individual-level Correlates of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities, 2012 Bureau of Justice Statistics Working Paper Series Facility-level and Individual-level Correlates of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities, 2012 Leanne Heaton David Cantor Carol Bruce Weijia Ren John Hartge WESTAT®, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850, www.westat.com Allen …
Publication • 2012
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
The Prison Journal, Crime Pays - the Connection Between Time in Prison and Future Criminal Earnings, 2012 See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258194428 Crime Pays The Connection Between Time in Prison and Future Criminal Earnings Article in The Prison Journal · September 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0032885512448607 …
Report Deconstructs Urban Legend of 100,000 Missing Sex Offenders by David Reutter by David M. Reutter “Like dormitory gossip or the childhood game Whisper-Down-the-Lane,” the assertion that “over 100,000 sex offenders [are] ‘missing’ from registries across the country has galvanized the urban legend that over years of telling, took on …
PLN Public Records Suit Reveals Litigation Payouts for District of Columbia DOC by Alex Friedmann As the result of a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, litigation payouts in cases involving the District of Columbia’s prison system have been publicly disclosed. In January …
Article • May 15, 2012 • from PLN May, 2012
Dramatic Increase in Number of Hispanics Sentenced to Federal Prison by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Tougher immigration enforcement efforts coupled with fast-track procedures in immigration cases have combined to dramatically increase the number of Hispanics entering the federal prison system. Statistics released in June 2011 indicate that Hispanics, who …
Article • May 15, 2012
35,948 Arrested Yesterday by Maya Schenwar Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:16 By Maya Schenwar, Truthout Last Friday, the day the NATO 3 were arrested, approximately 35,948 people were arrested across the United States. On Sunday, when at least 45 protesters were arrested at Chicago's NATO summit protests, approximately 35,948 Americans …
State-by-State Prisoner Rape and Sexual Abuse Round-Up by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke and Alex Friedmann In 2006, Prison Legal News published a cover story, Guards Rape of Prisoners Rampant, No Solution in Sight, that presented a compilation of news reports concerning the rape and sexual abuse of prisoners by …
Article • April 15, 2012 • from PLN April, 2012
ACLU of Arizona Surveys Taser Use in Statewide Report by Joe Watson No one can claim that the ACLU of Arizona lacks ambition. After poring over a decade’s worth of investigations, lawsuits and public records, the ACLU of Arizona is attempting to persuade law enforcement officials in the Grand Canyon …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Survey Shows College Courses for Prisoners Reduce Recidivism, but Few Exist by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Of the various kinds of rehabilitative programs offered to prisoners, only education has been shown to unequivocally correlate with a strong reduction in recidivism. The more education a prisoner receives, the greater the …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
U.S. Department of Justice Releases Statistics on Jail Prisoners at Midyear 2010 by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In April 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a statistical report on the nation’s city and county jail population for the twelve-month period ending …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Forty Percent of Adult Offenders Return to Prison Within Three Years of Release by In April 2011, the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States issued a report concerning recidivism rates for released offenders. The report, which updates a similar though far less extensive 2002 study …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
California: CDCR Releases 2011 Recidivism Report by On November 23, 2011, in the second in a series of annual reports designed to provide new insights to policy-makers and correctional stakeholders with respect to recidivism rates, the Office of Research of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) released its …
Article • March 15, 2012 • from PLN March, 2012
Texas Prisoners Serve Average of 58% of Their Sentences by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke According to a recent report by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), during fiscal year (FY) 2010, Texas state prisoners served an average of 58% of their sentences before being released. That percentage is …
Article • February 15, 2012 • from PLN February, 2012
Study Reports on Undiagnosed HIV Infections in New York City Jails by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke An article in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome reported that the HIV infection rate among people being booked into New York City jails was much higher …
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