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Article • December 15, 2003
Number of Presidential Pardons Declining by Michael Rigby In spite of a rising number of requests, presidential pardons have become virtually non-existent under the George W. Bush administration. During his first two years in office Bush neither granted any pardons nor commuted any sentences. On December 23, 2002, Bush finally …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Sex Offender Registries Asked: Where Are All the Sex Offenders? by Sex Offender Registries Asked: Where Are All the Sex Offenders? An informal poll by the organiza-tion Parents for Megan's Law has revealed holes in states' abilities to track the location of convicted sex offenders who are required to register …
Article • November 15, 2003 • from PLN November, 2003
Education in Prison Declines by In a special report issued in January 2003, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) found that participation rates in prison education programs declined 5% from 1991 through 1997, although the total number of prisoners in education programs rose with the prison population in the United …
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
New Study Rejects Link Between Prisons and Economic Growth by A new study examining 25 years of economic data finds that despite the many claims and promises, building prisons in rural communities has had no positive effect on either employment or per capita income. The study by The Sentencing Project …
Article • September 15, 2003 • from PLN September, 2003
The Death Penalty in 2001 by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), by the end of December 2001, 3,581 prisoners were under sentence of death in the thirty-seven States and the Federal prison system in the United States. Fewer prisoners (155) were received under sentence of death than …
Article • August 15, 2003 • from PLN August, 2003
Probation and Parole Populations Continued to Rise in 2001 by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), in a bulletin released in August 2002, the total number of adult women and men under some form of correctional supervision --jail, prison, probation, or parole rose to 6,592,800 by the end …
Article • July 15, 2003 • from PLN July, 2003
HIV Infections, AIDS Deaths Down in U.S. Prisons by Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the fearsome, incurable disease caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), is far more prevalent in prison populations nationwide than it is in the general, non-incarcerated population throughout the United States. At the end of the year …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
Prison Population Continues to Grow by Continuing a trend first noted in 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that the overall growth rate of the United States' prison population was quite small. In some states, prison populations actually declined. PLN …
Article • May 15, 2003 • from PLN May, 2003
BJS Summarizes State Sex Offender Registries by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, released a state-by-state summary of the Sex Offender Registries (SOR's) throughout the United States. The report, released in March 2002, compared the states' SOR's in February 2001 to BJS's …
Article • March 15, 2003 • from PLN March, 2003
BJS Releases New Recidivism Study by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a division of the Department of Justice, has published a recidivism study of prisoners released in 1994, the first since its 1989 report on 1983 releasees. The report studied the recidivism rate of 272,111 prisoners released from 15 …
Article • January 15, 2003 • from PLN January, 2003
Book Review: From Prison to Home by Roger Hummel by Jeremy Travis, Amy Solomon and Michelle Waul Justice Policy Center, the Urban Institute, Washington DC, 2001, 56 pages, paper Review by Roger Hummel In a remarkable new book from the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center, the dimensions of prisoner reentry …
Article • November 15, 2002 • from PLN November, 2002
Bureau of Justice Statistics Analyzes Parole Trends by The Bureau of Justice Statistics has issued a report analyzing changes in parole and the resulting effects. The report compared the two types of parole releases (discretionary and mandatory) and their effects on parole populations in the United States. Discretionary parole is …
Article • August 15, 2002 • from PLN August, 2002
PLRA and AEDPA Have Different Effects on Prisoner Petitions by In a December 2001 special report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, determined that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) have had significant, but …
Article • July 15, 2002 • from PLN July, 2002
Prison Population Growth Slows Dramatically in 2000 by In the year 2000, America's prison population slowed its growth dramatically, showing the lowest growth rate seen in 28 years. The state prison population experienced its first measured decline in nearly three decades. These data highlighted an August 2001 report published by …
Article • April 15, 2002 • from PLN April, 2002
HIV Still a Major Health Threat in Prisons and Jails by Between 1995 and 1999, the death rate from AIDS in prisons and jails plummeted, and the rate of increase of HIV in prisons grew at about one third the rate of increase of the general prison population. That bit …
Article • March 15, 2002 • from PLN March, 2002
NCIA Report Finds Prison Race Statistics Distorted by A report released in May 2001, says that Hispanic/Latino prisoners are often classified in a variety of racial categories, which results in a distortion of prison statistics reporting the racial composition of American prison populations. The research report, Masking The Divide: How …
Article • February 15, 2002 • from PLN February, 2002
Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons Falls Short by Among the 1,558 public and private state prisons and community corrections facilities, approximately 191,000 prisoners are mentally ill. Of these prisoners, about one in five does not receive necessary mental health treatment. These numbers come from a report by Allen J. …
Article • November 15, 2001 • from PLN November, 2001
Book Review: Power, Politics, & Crime by Rick Card Book Review: Power, Politics, & Crime by William J. Chambliss, Westview Press, 1999 Review by Rick Card "There is ... a huge chasm," says William Chambliss in his book, Power, Politics, & Crime , "between the reality of crime, the public's …
Article • September 15, 2001 • from PLN September, 2001
Feds Tally the Death Penalty by In December, 2000, the Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzed the United States' death penalty in a report titled "Capital Punishment 1999." It is an in-depth analysis of how the death penalty was applied in the United States in 1999, plus a preliminary execution report …
Article • June 15, 2001 • from PLN June, 2001
Prisoners of the Census by Tracy Huling Record numbers of urban people of color are now in prisons in rural areas _ where the census counts them as residents. Result? The prisoners' `share' of federal funds pegged to population counts will go to their keepers' hometowns. Since April Fool's Day, …
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