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Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
Prison Time vs. Crime Rate Study by According to a study in August 1995, by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, putting more people in state prisons has had little effect on California's crime rate. In only two categories of criminal activity analyzed in the study -- robbery …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN January, 1997
DiIulio's Crime Solution by Like a party clown twisting balloons into cute animal shapes, John J. DiIulio Jr. twists facts, myths, and statistics into fantastical logical conclusions. DiIulio is professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also a media-darling of the lock-em-up, conservative right. Professor DiIulio …
Article • February 15, 1997 • from PLN February, 1997
Costs of Crime by JW Mason by J.W. Mason Suppose you could calculate the dollar value of the costs of crime -- lost property, medical bills, missed work, pain and suffering -- and figure out its total yearly cost to society? While "putting a dollar value on the suffering resulting …
Article • December 15, 1996 • from PLN December, 1996
A Matter of Fact by There are 1.5 million private security guards employed in the U.S., outnumbering police three to one. Communities, individuals, and businesses spent $52 billion on private security in 1990, twice the amount of tax revenues going to police. The crime rate dropped 4 percent overall in …
Article • November 15, 1996 • from PLN November, 1996
A Matter of Fact by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) collected nearly $550 million in assets from civil forfeiture from "criminals" (many of whom were not convicted of criminal offenses) in 1994, and shared almost $235 million of this booty with state and local law enforcement agencies. In 1994, …
Article • October 15, 1996 • from PLN October, 1996
A Matter of Fact by A 1988 study of California prisoners concluded that there is a strong positive correlation between prisoners' visiting and their successful transition to the free world. Of those who received 12 or more visits in their last year of incarceration, 68.5 percent had "satisfactory outcomes" (presumably …
Article • September 15, 1996 • from PLN September, 1996
A Matter of Fact by The racial makeup of California prisoners is: 29% white, 33% black and 34% brown. But in California's supermax, Pelican Bay SHU, 14% are white, 17% are black and an astounding 60% are brown. In California's other SHU for male prisoners at Corcoran, 18% are white, …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
A Matter of Fact by Since 1991, Ohio's corrections budget has grown by $527 million, a 110 percent increase. Ohio now spends three times more money on state prisons than it does on grade school students. Of 20,088 Maryland prisoners in 1994, 15,457 were black -- a staggering 76.9 percent. …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
Prison: An Entitlement System? by According to a recent computer analysis, Alabama's prison population has tripled since 1980, but the state's crime rate has remained the same. A Birmingham News analysis of Corrections Department statistics and census records show that nearly one of every 167 Alabamans older than 14 are …
Article • July 15, 1996 • from PLN July, 1996
A Matter of Fact by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has a $2.5 billion annual budget and 40,000 employees. It is the largest state agency in Texas. From January 1977 to October 1995, 302 prisoners were executed in the U.S. In that same time period, 95 death-sentenced prisoners …
Article • June 15, 1996 • from PLN June, 1996
A Matter of Fact by Welcome to this new feature of PLN. Often we run across amazing facts, figures, quotes, or statistics, but don't have the time, energy, or space to develop a full-length article. So, in the same vein as "News in Brief," this column will be consist solely …
Damn Lies and Statistics by Most PLN readers are well aware of the conservative PR campaign designed to convince legislators and the voting public that the courts are threatened with drowning in a deluge of prisoner-initiated litigation. The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) has developed model legislation designed to …
Article • April 15, 1996 • from PLN April, 1996
Prison Population Statistics Available by The annual BJS report on prison populations was released on Dec. 3, 1995. The number of state and federal prisoners grew by 89,707 during the 12 months ending June 30, 1995. It was the largest one-year population increase ever recorded in the U.S. The state …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
New Statewide Data Show Prison Rape a Widespread Problem by Over a fifth of male prisoners are sexually victimized behind bars according to a newly released survey of an entire state's prison system. A summary of results from the spring, 1994 survey, which covered all four Nebraska prisons and was …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
WA DOC Gets $745,366,000 by Paul Wright In the August, 1995, issue of PLN we discussed the myriad anti-prisoner and -defendant legislation passed by the Washington State legislature in its 1995 session. The 1995 session was the longest in state history, running several months past its scheduled closing. Because the …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
Jail Population Report by Like the prison population the nation's jail population has soared in recent years, overshadowed by prison crowding. According to a recent Department of Justice report, Jails and Jail Inmates 1993-94, the national jail population was at an all time record high of 490,442 detainees as of …
Article • October 15, 1995 • from PLN October, 1995
US Prison Population Report by According to the Department of Justice the American prison population has grown more than 2.5 times between 1980 and 1993. As of 1993, the latest year statistics are available, 2.6% of the US adult population, 4.9 million adults, were on parole, probation, in prison or …
Article • May 15, 1995 • from PLN May, 1995
TDCJ Grows & Grows by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) had a 1994 budget of $1.84 million dollars. According to the Texas Comptroller that is slated to grow to $3 billion by the year 2000. Texas currently has an incarceration rate of 553 per 100,000 (the highest in …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Federal Habeas Rarely Granted by The National Center for state Courts in Williamsburg, VA has released a study conducted by Victor Flange, concluding that post conviction challenges by prisoners in state or federal court are rarely successful. The report was originally commissioned in 1989 by the Conference of Chief Justices …
Article • April 15, 1995 • from PLN April, 1995
Most Murders by Friends and Family by One of the propaganda lies hyping the anti-crime hysteria is the fear of seemingly random crimes committed by strangers against strangers. Anyone who watches the television news or reads newspapers would conclude that such crimes constitute the majority of murders committed. However, according …
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