Population Bomb Behind Bars They tell us that when our incarceration rate is low, our crime rate is The law of supply and demand states that as long as there is a demand for a http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-23-00.html
Extractions: Archives Hurricane Katrina Archives February 23, 2000 by Timothy Lynch Timothy Lynch is director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice America's criminal justice system is going to make history this week when the number of incarcerated people surpasses two million for the first time. But this is a development for which neither political party will attempt to claim "credit." Indeed, people across the political spectrum seem to recognize that this is a sad occasionan occasion that raises a nagging question: Why do so many Americans need to be kept behind iron bars? To fully appreciate why this is such an extraordinary moment, one needs to put the two-million-prisoner factoid into historical context. As the nearby chart shows, it took over two hundred years for America to hold one million prisoners all at once. And yet we have managed to incarcerate the second million in only the last ten years. Analysts at the Justice Policy Institute point out that our per-capita incarceration rate is now second only to Russia's. This is hardly something that anyone would proudly tout as an "achievement."
Prisonwatch In Oklahoma the incarceration rate for women is more than double the national Nationally, from 1993 through 2002, while overall crime was falling, http://www.timesizing.com/2jailvu.htm
Prison Fellowship Newsroom - Press Kit (Diminishing Returns crime and incarceration in the 1990s, The Sentencing Project, The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world http://www.demossnewspond.com/pf/presskit/generalstats.htm
Extractions: Wilberforce Forum Criminal Justice Statistics Nearly 7 million men, women, and youth are under correctional supervision in Americaincarceration, probation, or parole (2003). Studies show that the high price tag of incarceration ($146 billion annually) is not leading to a solution to crime. The number of people under correctional supervision has doubled in ten years: Today there are nearly 7 million men and women under correctional supervisionĀincarceration, probation or paroleĀin the United States, compared with 6.6 million in 2002 and 3.2 million in 1990. (Bureau of Justice Statistics, August 2004)
Extractions: Writings is the home for general works by friends of the Claremont Institute that don't fall into any other site category, such as our projects or Precepts newsletter. Scott W. Johnson , a fellow of the Claremont Institute, is an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank in Minneapolis. He co-authors the Power Line blog, named TIME Magazine's first-ever "Blog of the Year." Also by Scott W. Johnson The Ambassador Nobody Knows Posted on June 3, 2005 Broad Ownership Needs Broad Taxpaying Posted on February 2, 2005 Apocalypse Kerry Redux Posted on August 28, 2004 The Forces of Decomposition and The War on Terror Posted on September 7, 2005 Tartakovsky on Israel's Disengagement Posted on August 31, 2005 A Progressive's Progress Posted on August 10, 2005
Private Prisons:Profits Of Crime Private Prisons Profits of crime. By Phil Smith camps for undocumentedaliens, private interests have entered the incarceration business in a big way. http://mediafilter.org/caq/Prison.html
Extractions: At Leavenworth, Kansas, within a perimeter of razor wire, armed prison guards in uniform supervise hundreds of medium- and maximum-security federal prisoners. Welcome to one of America's growth industries- private sector, for-profit prisons. Here in the shadow of the federally-run Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks and the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) runs a short-term detention facility for medium- and maximum-security prisoners. Under contract to the U.S. Marshal's Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the CCA Leavenworth facility is not an anomaly but part of a trend. In the last decade, from juvenile detention centers to county jails and work farms to state prison units to INS holding camps for undocumented aliens, private interests have entered the incarceration business in a big way. Where there are people detained, there are profits to be made. Imprisonment is an ugly business under any regime, but the prospect of a privatized prison system raises difficult and disturbing questions beyond those associated with a solely state-operated prison system. It has been, after all, a common assumption that the criminalization and punishment of certain behaviors-the deprivation of physical liberty and even of life itself-are not amenable to private sector usurpation. Some of the arguments that inform this assumption are ethi cal, some legal, and others practical, but all are being chal lenged by a growing group of special interests.
Men Removed - And Towns LESS Safe ``Many people assume that incarceration reduces crime. But when incarcerationgets to a certain density, that is when you see the effects change. http://robtshepherd.tripod.com/mengone.html
Extractions: 85% of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers - all come from single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories come from single-father-headed households. [Statistics from late 1990s.] See the whole article Other information is available from Wade Horn of the National Fatherhood Initiative. Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post Things were looking up in Frenchtown. After years of spiraling out of control, crime had been declining sharply in this neighborhood of rickety frame houses and tumbledown carryouts that forms the historic hub of this city's African American community. Observers credited a variety of aggressive police tactics, including more and longer prison sentences for offenders. But in 1997, the declining crime rate in Frenchtown began to level off, failing to keep pace with drops in similar Tallahassee neighborhoods. And researchers analyzing crime trends here have fingered an unlikely culprit: the high number of Frenchtown residents sitting in prison cells.
MotherJones.com -- Debt To Society Since 1980, the national crime rate has meandered down, then up, In WestVirginia, for example, the incarceration rate ballooned by 131 percent over the http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/prisons/overview.html
Extractions: Photography by Andrew Lichtenstein and Gregg Segal In the heart of Los Angeles, just a few blocks from the downtown commuter hub of Union Station, stands a pair of massive concrete towers. Tinted in bland desert tones of beige and dull rose, the angular, unapologetically functional buildings could be some big corporation's headquarters, or a hospital, or perhaps a research facility. Only the windows nearly all of them narrow, vertical slits through which nothing can be seen from the outside give a clue to what the complex really is: the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, which happens to be the world's biggest jail. Linking the towers is a low-lying structure called the Inmate Reception Center. This is the first stop for every inmate taken into custody by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Each day, as many as 6,000 prisoners pass through the IRC's vast labyrinth of hallways and holding areas. It takes a staff of 800 just to log, sort, and monitor them, from booking and fingerprinting to locking them up in cells crowded with other inmates. Local taxpayers spent nearly $400 million to build the Towers in the early '90s because older jails were overflowing with arrestees. The jails, in turn, serve as gateways for the 21 new prisons the state has built since 1980. Over the past two decades, the number of inmates in those prisons has grown sevenfold, to more than 160,000. It cost California taxpayers nearly $5.3 billion to build the new lockups and it costs another $4.8 billion every year to keep them running.
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Bureau Of Justice Statistics Criminal Offenders Statistics If recent incarceration rates remain unchanged, an estimated 1 of every 15 Provides estimates of the number and rate of violent crimes committed by http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/crimoff.htm
Extractions: Also by BJS staff ... Related sites On the corrections page: About the data collections For additional information about homicide offenders, see Homicide Trends in the United States Prevalence of imprisonment in the United States As of December 31, 2001, there were an estimated 5.6 million adults who had ever served time in State or Federal prison, including 4.3 million former prisoners and 1.3 million adults in prison.
Gangs:Statistics(Crime, Gangs, Abuse) In 1995, in 15 states reporting information, 40% of child abuse cases Calculated from Index of crime Table 1 by taking the percent change in the rate http://www.gangsandkids.com/gstats.html
Extractions: Imprisonment Rates Vary Wildly by Race by Steve Sailer UPI , June 14, 2001 LOS ANGELES, June 14, 2001 (UPI) The Justice Department announced Wednesday that in 2000 violent crime was down a striking 46 percent from its peak in 1994, which was during the crack epidemic. This result was according to the annual National Crime Victimization Survey of 160,000 Americans. But has this tremendous reduction in violence been accomplished at too high of a price in terms of the greatly increased numbers of imprisoned blacks and Hispanics? The National Center on Institutions and Alternatives ( www.NCIAnet.org ), a liberal think tank advocating less imprisonment, has released a new report, " Masking the Divide ," that argues that, "The overuse of incarceration is causing severe and potentially irreparable divisions in society." It wants society to "turn the criminal justice system off its racist path and begin to repair the damage it is causing." The NCIA said, "During the twelve years we examined (1985 to 1997), the U.S. prisoner population more than doubled from 502,376 to 1,240,962. Nationally, non-whites accounted for 70 percent of this growth in state and federal prisons."
Critical Gaps Exist In Crime Statistics crime returns as a political issue in Arizona. Calls for alternatives toincarceration are often driven by statistics purporting to show a large number http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0812robb12.html
Crime & Safety - Crime Probation and Parole in the United States, 2002 pdf this report by the Bureau of Berthoud Police Department; College University crime Statistics http://www.larimer.org/compass/sub_crime.htm
Extractions: The Colorado Bureau of Investigations' Crime in Colorado 2004 report indicates that, of the major crimes, Homicide and Motor Vehicle Theft had the largest percentage increases. See Agency Statistics for individual reports from Larimer County law enforcement agencies. (July 2005) Probation Child/Youth data: Outside Compass: The rate of substantiated reports of adult abuse reached a ten year high in 2003 (1.9 substantiated reports per 1,000 adults). A growing proportion of elderly and disabled with greater health care needs are also increasing the population vulnerable to adult abuse. Greater awareness of Adult Protective Services throughout the community may also have contributed to an increased rate of initial reports. ( Adult Abuse In 2004, the rate of total adult arrests in the 8th Judicial District (59.6 per 1,000 adults) decreased from the previous year. A major increase in local use and distribution of methamphetamine (meth) resulted in a 118% increase in 'Narcotics' arrests from 1999 to 2004. (
JRSA's Frequently Asked Questions The FBI s Uniform crime Reports also include hate crime statistics. Are statistics available on executions in the United States? http://www.jrsa.org/about/faq.html
Extractions: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS JRSA receives many requests for justice-related information from researchers, students, and the public. Most of the information requested is readily available on government or organization Web sites. If you need information of a specific type, please check the sections below for a referral to the proper Internet site. If you cannot find the information through the links below, please use the Information Request Form Statistics Law Enforcement Corrections ... JRSA Where can I find adult crime statistics? The Federal Bureau of Investigation publishes statistics on the seven index crimes (murder/non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft) and arson in the Uniform Crime Reports Many of the Statistical Analysis Centers have data available on their Web sites. The Bureau of Justice Statistics keeps statistics on a variety of issues including corrections, victimization, prisons, jails, and the death penalty. Finally, visit your local police department's Web site to see if it has statistics available for your area.
Extractions: Skip to start of content Advanced search Karen Gelb Assistant Director, National Centre for Crime and Justice Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics Presented at: Evaluation in Crime and Justice : Trends and Methods ABS House, Canberra 24-25 March 2003 If you see this message you are probably using an old browser: these pages should be readable, but we recommend updating to a modern browser. URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/evaluation/gelb.html
New Jersey Leads Nation In Drug-incarceration Rate for drug crimes, compared with the national average of 20 percent. For example, the incarceration rate is growing faster for women than men in New http://www.drug-rehabs.org/content.php?cid=629&state=New Jersey
Extractions: Growth in U.S. Incarceration Rate Slowed in 1995-1996 for the First Time in a Decade, According to Justice Department JUSTICE STATISTICS February 1997 The growth in the incarceration rate in the nation's federal and state prisons and local jails slowed for the first time in the last decade, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced on January 19 (Darrell K. Gilliard and Allen J. Beck, "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1996" (NCJ-162843), U.S Department of Justice, Office of Justice Statistics, January 1997; Fox Butterfield, "Slower Growth in the Number of Inmates," New York Times , January 20, 1997, p. A10; Associated Press, "U.S. Incarceration Growth Has Slowed," Washington Post , January 20, 1997, p. A16). The incarceration rate almost doubled during the last ten years and tripled over the last 20 years. In 1985, the national incarceration rate was 313 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. By June 30, 1996, this had increased to 615 inmates per 100,000 residents. The incarcerated population grew from 744,208 in 1985 to 1,630,940 by the end of June 1996, an average growth of 7.8 percent a year and an increase of 4.4% over the previous year. As of last June 30 there were 93,167 federal prisoners, 1,019,281 state prisoners and 518,492 jail inmates. Thirty-nine percent of the prison population growth during the 12 months ending June 30, 1996 was accounted for by California (10,954), the federal system (4,256), Pennsylvania (4,095) and North Carolina (3,853). During this period the prison population increased by at least 10% in 13 states, led by Nebraska (16%), Montana (15.2%), North Carolina (14.4%), Oregon (14.1%), Wisconsin (13.9%) and Pennsylvania (13.7%). New Hampshire, Connecticut and the District of Columbia had declines in their prison populations.
Taipei Times - Archives By comparison, the current incarceration rate in Britain is 142 per 100000 Thirteen states reported increases in the number of those incarcerated of at http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/26/2003252061
Extractions: Tuesday, Apr 26, 2005,Page 7 Advertising The US prison population, already the largest in the world, reached a new high of more than 2.1 million last year, with one in every 138 residents of the country now behind bars, according to new government statistics. The data, made public by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on Sunday, put the US far ahead of countries like China and Russia, whose combined population is about five times that of the US. "The numbers are pretty consistent with what they have been in the last few years," Justice Department statistician Paige Harrison, a co-author of the report, said.
