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Article • November 15, 1994 • from PLN November, 1994
A Prison a Week by According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, Prisoners in 1993, the nationwide 7.4% growth rate of state and federal prison populations in 1993 translates to 1,254 additional prisoners each week. This rate of growth can only be supported by building one 1,254 bed prison …
Article • October 15, 1994 • from PLN October, 1994
U.S. Number 1 (in Murder, Violence, Imprisonment, etc.) by The United Nations released its 1994 Human Development Report in mid June, 1994. According to the report, the United States is first in murders, first in military spending, first in rapes and first in road accidents in the industrialized world. It …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Recidivism Revisited by Michigan's corrections department recently released a five-year study of its paroled prisoners that reached the same conclusion as a similar six-year Louisiana study released last year: 55.2% of Michigan's 1986 parolees never returned to prison (nor did 56% of Louisiana's 1987 released prisoners). 5-year follow-up study on …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Statistics Under Attack: F.B.I. Director Speaks out in Support of DNA Profiling by Dale Gardner By Dale Gardner The method used by the FBI to calculate the frequency of a DNA match has been questioned in a recent paper. It is reported that the FBI calculates match probability based upon …
Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993
Nearly Third of All Prison Deaths Due to AIDS by More than half the prison inmates nationwide who died from AIDS in 1991 were in New York and New Jersey, where widespread drug abuse has caused much of the disease's spread, a government study said. Two thirds of the prisoner …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
California Prisons Grow by Since 1973 the U.S. prison population has tripled. According to a recent study by the Sentencing Project, a record 1.1 million Americans are now behind bars at a cost of $20.3 billion a year. We now have the highest rate of incarceration in the world, far …
Article • April 15, 1993 • from PLN April, 1993
Prison Escapes and Killings Down by Incarceration rates in the United States and Canada are on the rise. Overcrowded conditions are being felt by more and more prisons. Despite all this, the number of prison escapes and homicides has decreased. Fifty state systems, the District of Columbia, and the federal …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Prisoners File Record Number of Suits by Paul Wright By Paul Wright We often hear prison officials, the various attorney generals, and the courts complain about what they call a "flood" of prisoner litigation. I, for one, became curious as to how many lawsuits constitute a "flood." I have been …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
1990 U.S. Prison Population Stats by Ed Mead By Ed Mead The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has just come out with two more books containing figures on the nation's prison population. The first is a 32-page pamphlet entitled Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities-1990, and the second one …
Article • March 15, 1993 • from PLN March, 1993
Federal Prison Terms Increasing by Offenders sentenced under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are more likely to go to prison and to stay there longer than were offenders sentenced for crimes committed before the guidelines took effect in November, 1987,according to U.S. Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). BJS said …
Article • February 15, 1993 • from PLN February, 1993
Criminal Justice Statistics by Ed Mead By Ed Mead You must have done something terribly wrong in a previous life (or maybe it was this one?), as I am now going to stick you with the task of reading a bunch of the government's criminal justice statistics. What I have …
Aborigines Have High Jail Death Rate by Nineteen Australian Aborigines died in police cells and prisons in 1990 and 1991 despite a multimillion dollar inquiry aimed at stopping aboriginal deaths in custody, according to a recent report. The continued over-representation of Aborigines in Australian prisons was a major contributing factor, …
Article • September 15, 1992 • from PLN September, 1992
23% of NY Prisoners Test Positive for TB by Twenty-three percent of New York's prisoners and six percent of the prison employees have tested positive for tuberculosis infection, according to the most thorough study to date. Thomas A. Coughlin, the Commissioner of Correctional Services, released the data. The tests included …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
High AIDS Rate Behind Bars by People entering U.S. prisons have high HIV infection rates and transmission of the virus that causes AIDS continues among prisoners because of intravenous drug use and homosexual activity, Federal health officials said June 4 in Atlanta. As of November 1990, there were 4,519 cases …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
1991 Prison Population Up 6.2% by The population of state and federal prisons (not counting jails) rose 6.2 percent last year, reaching a new record high of more than 823,000, according to a study by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The increase amounted to a need for 900 …
Article • August 15, 1992 • from PLN August, 1992
Blacks Likely to Spend More Time In Jail by Blacks Likely To Spend More Time In Jail Without sentencing guidelines, employed blacks are almost six times as likely as their white counterparts to face jail for drug crimes, a new Florida State University (FSU) study says. The study by FSU …
Article • July 15, 1992 • from PLN July, 1992
42% of DC Young Black Men Said to Be in Justice System by More then 40 percent of the black men age 18 to 35 in the District of Columbia were "firmly in the grip of the criminal justice system" on an average day last year, according to a study …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Washington's Prisons to Reach 10,000 by Washington's Prisons To Reach 10,000 Washington State's jammed prisons soon will hold a record 10,000 inmates, and the state is stepping up construction of more cells to head off the unrest that often comes with overcrowding. "We've been pretty lucky that we haven't had …
Article • June 15, 1992 • from PLN June, 1992
Crime Rates Continue Upward Climb by Ed Mead By Ed Mead Preliminary figures from the FBI's recently released Uniform Crime Reports show violent crimes reported to police last year increased by 5 percent, continuing a seven-year trend of increases. The rate of violent crime per capita rose to the highest …
Article • May 15, 1992 • from PLN May, 1992
U.S. Still Leads World's Incarceration Rate by The U.S, has widened its lead as the nation with the highest incarceration rate, according to figures complied by the Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C. based organization that conducts research on criminal justice issues. A year ago, the Sentencing Project reported that only …
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