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Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
Corrections Costs to Soar, Study Warns by Ed Penhale Corrections Costs To Soar, Study Warns By Ed Penhale, P-I Reporter Annual costs for running Washington's state and local corrections operations will rise by 50 percent over the next four years, adding $182 million a year to that expense by 1996, …
Article • April 15, 1992 • from PLN April, 1992
U.S. Murder Rate Increases Again by The nation's murder rate for 1991 reached its highest level in a decade, topping 24,000 for the first time, figures indicate. Based on a survey of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the Senate Judiciary Committee estimates there were 24,020 homicides last year, …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Probation and Parole Figures Up Again by Probation And Parole Figures Up Again It should come as no surprise to PLN readers that all statistics relating to crime and punishment are on the increase. The 1990 probation and parole figures recently released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics contains no …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
State Prison Systems Emulate Marion Control Unit by Fay Dowker By Faw Dowker and Glen Good Inspired by the Federal Bureau of Prisons' seven year experiment with a super-maximum security "control unit" prison at Marion in southern Illinois, state prison systems across the country have begun operating their own similar …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Incarceration Rate Grows in First Half of 1991 by Incarceration Rate Grows In First Half Of 1991 The nation's state and federal prison population grew by 30,149 inmates, just under four percent, during the first half of1991 to reach a record 804,524 men and women as of June 30, the …
Article • January 15, 1992 • from PLN January, 1992
Prison Population Up, Escapes Down by According to a poll conducted by Corrections Compendium magazine, there were fewer escapes in 1990 than in 1989. In 1989, there were 7,816 escapes reported from 48 states (1.33%). In 1990, those same systems reported 7,244 escapes (1.11%) - a decrease of 572 at …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
Executions Report Issued by Eleven states executed 23 people last year, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced on September 29th. The Bureau said as of December 31, 1990, there were 2,356 people being held on death row in 34 states. Between 1976, when the U.S. Supreme …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
New York Prisons Profiled by A prisoners' advocacy group in New York City on September 27 released a profile of the state and city inmate population and found a pattern of minority offenders being increasingly locked up for nonviolent crimes. The Correctional Association of New York said there are more …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida by Mandatory Sentencing Flops In Florida Florida offers a classic example of how mandatory sentencing laws and large-scale incarceration of drug offenders can produce an unbalanced correctional system and possibly reduce public safety, according a new study by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Violent Crime Rate Up, Again by There was a sharp increase in violent crimes according to the final statistics for 1990 gathered by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The FBI reported murder and rape rates increased 9 percent last year, and robbery and aggravated assault rose 11 percent. …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
Violent Crime Up 10% in 1990 by Violent Crime Up 10% In 1990 Last issue we published an article titled "Which Shell Is The Pea Under?" in which we argued against the U.S. government's claim that there exists a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
U.S. Prison Population Grew 8.2% in 1990 by Washington State Has Second Highest (15.4%) Increase The number of state and federal prisoners grew 8.2 percent last year, the U.S. Justice Departments Bureau of justice Statistics (BJS) announced on May 15. According to the Bureau, the 1990 growth rate was more …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
New Report Cites Higher Rates of HIV Infection Among Inmates by The virus that causes AIDS may be more common among prison and jail inmates, especially women, than previously thought, according to a new study based on testing of nearly 11,000 inmates entering 10 prisons and jails between mid-1988 and …
Article • June 15, 1991 • from PLN June, 1991
Which Shell is the Pea Under? Government Crime Statistics Invoke Slight of Hand by The U.S. Justice Department claims a "definite and positive" link between locking people up and violent crime rates in the United States. As more offenders go to prison, the argument goes, violent crime decreases. It seems …
Article • March 15, 1991 • from PLN March, 1991
U.S. Now Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate by The U.S. now has the highest recorded rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project. With over one million inmates in prison and jail, the U.S. surpasses both South Africa and the …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
Spending on Corrections Rises Sharply by Spending On Corrections Rises Sharply Federal, state and local governments in the United States spent $61 billion in fiscal year 1988 for civil and criminal justice, an increase of 34 percent since 1985, according to a report recently issued by the U.S. Department of …
Article • February 15, 1991 • from PLN February, 1991
New York Report Matches National Study Results by A study released in October of 1990 found that nearly one out of every four young black men in New York state is under the control of the criminal justice system on any given day. The results of the joint study by …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Four Out of Ten Get the Slammer by Four Out Of Ten Get The Slammer A Bureau of Justice Statistics study tracked 536,000 felony offenders in 12 states in 1967. The study found that out of every 10 people arrested on felony charges, eight were prosecuted, six were convicted of …
Article • January 15, 1991 • from PLN January, 1991
Rich Get Richer, Poor Get Poorer by In 1990, the richest 1% of the people have almost as much in after-tax income as the poorest 40%. To put it another way, 2.5 million rich people each take home 36 times as much as each 100 million poor. In 1980 it …
Article • December 15, 1990 • from PLN December, 1990
Sixteen Executed During 1989 by Sixteen Executions During 1989 In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty. Since then 13 states have executed 120 people. Last year (1989) eight states executed 16 people. Eight of them were white and eight were black. They'd spent an average of seven …
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