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Article • October 15, 1990 • from PLN October, 1990
Government Spending for Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion in 1988 by Government Spending For Civil, Criminal Justice Reached $61 Billion In 1988 Federal, state and local governments spent $61 billion for civil and criminal justice in 1988, a 34 percent increase since 1985, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Washington Detains More Kids by According to the Bureau of Census' Children in Custody series, Washington State leads the nation in its confinement of juveniles in detention and state institutions. Washington has 1,211 juveniles in custody for every 100,000 population. The second ranked jurisdiction was the District of Columbia, which …
Article • July 15, 1990 • from PLN July, 1990
Prison Population Rises 12.1% by The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has issued its annual bulletin on prison populations. The report stated the number of state and federal prisoners in the U.S. grew by a record 76,099 prisoners during 1989. This figure now reaches a new high of 703, 687 …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Blacks Have Higher Crime Victimization Rate by Blacks are more likely than whites to be victims of violent crime, and the crimes against black victims are generally more serious that those against whites, according to a new study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). A review of the Bureau's …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Jail Populations Up 54% in 5 Years by Jail Populations Up 54% In 5 Years In a special report "Population Density in Local Jails, 1988," the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently announced that between 1983 and 1988, 5.3 million square feet of new housing space and …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
Prison Populations To Grow 68% by '94 by Prison populations are expected to increase by about 68% by 1994, according to a report by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Effects of the "war on drugs" are expected to overwhelm the nations correctional systems during that time. Other findings …
Article • June 15, 1990 • from PLN June, 1990
1989 Crime Rate Up 3% by One would think that with all of the new prisons constructed over the past 20 years the crime rate would be going down. Not so, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting System. The feds say crime was up 3% in 1989. Crime rates …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
New Prison Spending Jumps by 73% by NEW PRISON SPENDING JUMPS BY 73% Federal and state corrections' systems will spend more than 6.7 billion on new prison construction in the period 1989-90, an increase of 73% compared to 1987-88, according to Corrections Compendium, a corrections research and information service. The …
Most Punished for Exercising Right to Jury Trial by MOST PUNISHED FOR EXERCISING RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL In 89% of the estimated 583,000 felony convictions in state courts during 1986, the defendant pleaded guilty instead of standing trial before a judge or jury, the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Study Finds 23% of Young Black Men Under Criminal Sanctions by Nearly one out of every four black men between the ages of 20 and 29 nationwide is in prison or jail or on probation or parole on a given day, according to a new study based on records of …
Article • May 15, 1990 • from PLN May, 1990
Only Five States Not Under Court Order, Study Says by ONLY FIVE STATES NOT UNDER COURT ORDER, STUDY SAYS Only five states (Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, N. Dakota and Vermont) are not currently involved in major litigation over prison conditions, says a newly released report from the ACLU's National Prison …
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Bjs Study Black Victims of Violent Crime 2007 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report August 2007, NCJ 214258 Black Victims of Violent Crime by Erika Harrell, Ph.D. BJS Statistician Blacks were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal violent crimes and of about …
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Bjs Study Murder in Families 1994 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report Murder in Families By John M. Dawson and Patrick A. Langan, Ph.D. BJS Statisticians A survey of murder cases disposed in 1988 in the courts of …
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Doj Report Prisoners in 2008 Statistics U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Bureau of Justice Statistics BULLETIN Prisoners in 2008 William J. Sabol, Ph.D., and Heather C. West, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians Matthew Cooper, BJS Intern A t yearend 2008, federal and state correctional authorities …
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Ui Crimes Averted by Incapacitation 2007 RESEARCH REPORT JULY AN INFORMATION THEORETIC METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF CRIMES AVERTED BY INCAPACITATION 2007 Avinash Singh Bhati, Ph.D. This report was prepared with funding from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice through an Institute …
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Bojs Federal Pretrial Release and Detention 1996 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs %XUHDX RI -XVWLFH 6WDWLVWLFV 6SHFLDO 5HSRUW )HEUXDU\ ìäääñ 1&- ìçåçêè Federal Pretrial Release and Detention, 1996 %\ -RKQ 6FDOLD %-6 6WDWLVWLFLDQ 'XULQJ ìääçñ èçñäåë GHIHQGDQWV ZHUH FKDUJHG ZLWK D )HGHUDO RIIHQVHï $W WKHLU LQLWLDO FRXUW …
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The Correctional Ass of Ny Basic Prison Fact Sheet 2006 BASIC PRISON & JAIL FACT SHEET State Prisons: There are 70 state prisons in New York. It costs about $32,400 to maintain a prisoner in a New York State prison for a year. In January 1973 there were 12,500 persons …
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Doj Statistical Tables on Jail Inmates 2010 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics By Todd D. Minton BJS Statistician B etween midyear 2009 and midyear 2010, the confined inmate population in county and city jails (748,728) declined by 2.4% (18,706 inmates) (figure 1 and …
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Unlockingamerica 2007 Jfa UNLOCKING AMERICA Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population NOVEMBER 2007 PUBLISHED BY: THE JFA INSTITUTE | 5 Walter Houp Ct, NE | Washington, DC 20002 | www.jfa-associates.com UNLOCKING AMERICA Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population NOVEMBER 2007 WWW.JFA-ASSOCIATES.COM Authors James Austin, President, The …
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Doj Bjs Prison and Jail Inmates 2005 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised, 6/5/06, tld Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin May 2006, NCJ 213133 Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005 Paige M. Harrison and Allen J. Beck, Ph.D. BJS Statisticians At midyear 2005 the Nation’s prisons …
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