Indian Life: Sobering Statistics - Prison Population prisons / Analysis crime / United States The huge prison bulge may temporarily slow down crime, as it apparently has, but as offenders are released, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JJC/is_1_22/ai_78544335
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Excerpt from the book 'Justice that Restores' When I was sent to prison in 1974, I was one of 218,466 men and women in American prisons. Today, twenty-five years later, there are 1.3 million Americans in federal and state prisons-and another 600,000 in local and county jails. (By now, the number is projected to have topped 2 million.) Comparing prisons alone, that is six times the original number. Crime has increased just as dramatically. From 1960 to 1998, crime overall increased nearly 300 percent, violent crime nearly 500 percent. You may have heard that crime rates have dropped recently in the United States. Property crime is indeed down by 32 percent since 1993, and violent crime has dropped 27 percent. But this is not due to some sudden success in criminal justice and prison policies. It is mostly due to a number of factors: The so-called baby boomers, the large group of those born in the optimistic years right after World War II, are maturing out of the crime-prone age.
Prison@Everything2.com prisons are expensive. They rarely enable people to address the behaviour A report published in 2002 by the NSW Bureau of crime Statistics and Research http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=prison
Online Statistics Statistical Abstract of the United States Collection of statistics and graphs on Statistical data tables include budget and taxes; crime and prisons; http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/refstats.htm
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Prisons From 19801992, for example, the chance of going to prison for a drug A glance at the last 25 years of crime statistics shows that crime rates have http://www.cepr.net/prisons.htm
STATISTICAL RESOURCES ON THE WEB/SOCIOLOGY Annual data, 196097, on types of crime for the US and individual states Number of prisons, prisoners, prison rates, percent female or foreign prisons http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsoc.html
US Prisons Statistics said the United States, which has the largest prison and jail Better education is more effective at reducing crime than large prison http://christianparty.net/prison.htm
Citizenship Foundation:Issues Prisons Statistics Outlined below are some statistics relating to crime and punishment. More than half of all prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded, according to http://www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/main/page.php?136
Prisons: A Booming Industry In The US And Europe Yet most crime statistics show conclusively that the violent crime rate has Some US states are already spending considerably more on their prison http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jun2000/pris-j05.shtml
Extractions: 5 June 2000 Use this version to print For some years now, within the economically advanced countries two parallel developments have been proceeding at an increasing pace, and in direct proportion to each other: the dismantling of social welfare systems and the expansion of the prison system. The customary justification for the billions of dollars being spent on the construction of new prisons, increases in the scope and severity of criminal justice and the introduction of new forms of punishment is that all this "serves to protect the public from violent crime". Yet most crime statistics show conclusively that the violent crime rate has declined, or at least stagnated, over the past few years. As opposed to this, the number of prison inmates who committed offences in no way violent, but intrinsically linked to poverty and social inequality, has increased dramatically. Government plans and "prison reforms" are all based on the assumption that this development will continue at an even greater pace and become a permanent feature of society. Thus, preparations are being made to accommodate a growing percentage of the population that will, at least temporarily, find itself behind prison bars.
Australia crime and Justice Statistics for Western Australia 2003 Aboriginal Deaths in Prison 1980 to 1998 National Overview (Trends Issues in crime and http://newark.rutgers.edu/~wcjlen/WCJ/stats/australia.html
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The Crime Of Prisons The United States prison population now numbers over two million, These laws, better known as getting tough on crime, were created with the intent of http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v12/1/prisons.html
Extractions: The Thistle Volume 12, Number 1: June 2, 2000. The Crime of Prisons If you live by the long standing MIT tradition of looking down at the ground when you walk, and if you have broken the MIT tradition of never leaving campus, you have most likely noted the presence of the tag 'No More Prisons' on the sidewalks throughout Cambridge and Boston. Now if you have also broken that other MIT tradition of ignoring the world around you, it's possible that you've asked yourself what the tag is all about. This article will attempt to answer that question. The United States prison population now numbers over two million, which is nearly one percent of our total popu-lation. The United States houses over a quarter of the world's prison population. We have more prisoners than China, a country with quadruple our total popu-lation. At current rates, 1 out of every 20 people will serve time in prison during their lifetime. And we're growing: in '93 we had somewhere around 949,000, which means the prison population has more than doubled in seven years, while the total population has remained relatively stagnant. Most sentences are fairly long, being between five and fifteen years. Our prison population is quickly moving towards rivaling that of Stalins Soviet Union - or already has, according to some estimates. If you extend the statistics beyond the prison population to include anyone under correctional supervision, the number reaches 6 million - 2.2% of the United States population. There is a great wealth of statistics available on the prison population which give us some clue as to why there are so many people in jail. One factor appears to be race. Judging by the statistics, there has to be something criminal about being black, because 28% of black males will go to prison sometime during their lifetime. Compare this to the national average of 5.1%, and to the white male average of 4.4%, and it's enough to convince you that there must be a law somewhere against being black. My guess would be Texas or Alabama.
Neal R. Peirce, Prisons And Crime Rates Subject PRISONACT prisons and crime rates Neal Peirce Essay not be considered crimes at allin the United States now lead to a prison term, http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/330.html
Extractions: To: undisclosed-recipients:; The Prison-Industrial Complex Among our prisoners are dangerous folks we all want to see locked up: roughly 150,000 armed robbers, 125,000 murderers, 100,000 sex offenders. But of the people now going to prison, Schlosser reports, less than a third have committed a violent crime. Drug-related cases predominate: Across the country, politicians of both parties emulated Rockefeller, pushing multiple types of mandatory sentencing laws. As battalions of drug offenders got caught, our governments constructed some 1,000 new prisons in 20 years. Virtually all are now filled to the gills, many dangerously overcrowded. California alone now has more inmates than France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. Our national incarceration rate is 445 per 100,000. prison-industrial complex as potent as the military-industrial complex of which President Dwight Eisenhower warned.
Gary Aldrich: Costs Of Crime In fact, crime was the 2 issue on their chart. They proposed that if states would build more prisons, the federal government would help fund them but http://www.townhall.com/columnists/garyaldrich/ga20030729.shtml
Myths And Realities About Prisons And Jails In this respect New Mexico is like most other states, and for good reason. prisons are a costly enterprise. prisons have failed as deterrents to crime. http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1731
Criminon Results And Statistics The United States has the highest per capita prison rate in the world The annual cost of crime in the United States alone exceeds over $128 billion. http://www.criminon.org/results-stats/
Extractions: Home About Us Successes Endorsements ... Resources Home About Us News Successes Endorsements Donate Volunteer Online Store Results/Statistics Programs Resources Receive our E-Newsletter: General Crime Statistics The most recent United Nations World Crime Survey found that in four years the rate of assault increased by 14%, embezzlement by 29%, rape by 21% and homicide by 45%. At 6.8 per 100,000 population, the current homicide rate is 40% higher than in 1950. The United States has the highest per capita prison rate in the world with 715 people in prison per 100,000 of the population. The annual cost of crime in the United States alone exceeds over $128 billion. Resources and websites with more crime statistics Criminon Results and Statistics Some sample results of the Criminon program: The common denominator of Criminon's success has been restored self-respect of the inmates themselves, after a review of inmates' success stories, comments from officials in Juvenile Hall and other prisons internationally. Inmates are less aggressive and in better communication with other inmates, their families and staff, resulting in fewer disciplinary problems. This in turn gives less stress to correctional staff and makes their jobs easier.
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Extractions: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:08:24 -0800 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 18:53:12 -0500 weisbrot@preamble.org Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Prisons "R" Us Sender: worker-brc-news@lists.tao.ca To: brc-news@lists.tao.ca weisbrot@preamble.org X-WWW-Site: http://www.blackradicalcongress.org/ This is being distributed by Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Services. If anyone wants to reprint it, please let me know. February 17, 2000 Prisons "R" Us weisbrot@preamble.org America is facing an epidemic of incarceration. Like a dread disease it has spread and multiplied until it begins to corrode the fabric of our society. The number of prisoners has multiplied six-fold over the past 27 years, and will reach the astounding milestone of two million some time this year.
Extractions: Skip Site Map Search Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong. One of these days the public will start listening to prison activists, so let's be prepared to win without being sidetracked by arguments over defective statistics. In some cases, the numbers we need don't exist. In others, the facts exist but activists don't know where to find them. Now you do. Start at prisonsucks.com. Explore the links above (especially research ) and take action today! Written by the editor of this site and co-published with the Western Prison Project, The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry is the first index of statistics about our nation's criminal justice system ever published. Containing 611 facts and 17 graphs and charts, this 48-page volume presents, in black-and-white, the state of crime control in America. Read more and order online On June 30, 2004, there were 2,131,180 people in U.S. prisons and jails. That's a rise of 2.3% during the 12 previous months. Federal prisons are growing almost 5 times faster than state prison populations.
PrisonSucks.com: Research On The Prison Industrial Complex Statistics as of June 30, 2004 from Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2004, Despite Drop In crime, An Increase In Inmates By Fox Butterfield, http://www.prisonsucks.com/index.shtml
Extractions: Skip Site Map Search Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong. One of these days the public will start listening to prison activists, so let's be prepared to win without being sidetracked by arguments over defective statistics. In some cases, the numbers we need don't exist. In others, the facts exist but activists don't know where to find them. Now you do. Start at prisonsucks.com. Explore the links above (especially research ) and take action today! Written by the editor of this site and co-published with the Western Prison Project, The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry is the first index of statistics about our nation's criminal justice system ever published. Containing 611 facts and 17 graphs and charts, this 48-page volume presents, in black-and-white, the state of crime control in America. Read more and order online On June 30, 2004, there were 2,131,180 people in U.S. prisons and jails. That's a rise of 2.3% during the 12 previous months. Federal prisons are growing almost 5 times faster than state prison populations.
United States Profile: Crime Prisoners Share of prison capacity filled, c.106%. Property crime I also believe that the crime in the States is more violent, mainly due to guns. http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us/Crime
Extractions: several. Compare All Top 5 Top 10 Top 20 Top 50 Top 100 Bottom 100 Bottom 20 Bottom 10 Bottom 5 All (desc) in category: Select Category Agriculture Crime Currency Democracy Disasters Economy Education Energy Environment Food Geography Government Health Identification Immigration Industry Internet Labor Language Lifestyle Media Military Mortality People Religion Sports Taxation Transportation with statistic: view: Correlations Printable graph / table Pie chart Scatterplot with ... * Asterisk means graphable. Regions Africa Asia Europe Middle East ... United States : Crime View this page with sources or definitions listed for each statistic Adults prosecuted of (per capita) 48.02 per 1000 people of Assault victims of Assaults of (per capita) 7.56 per 1000 people of Believe in police efficiency of Bribe payers index of Bribery victims of Burglaries of (per capita) 7.09 per 1000 people
