Map & Graph: Countries By Crime: Prisoners While the violent crime rate in the US dropped by onethird from 1994 to 2003, and the property crime rate by 23 percent, the prison population has http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_pri
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. Definition: Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held. Different reporting practices mean that that statistics, whilst broadly correct, are not exact. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reporst that a further 110,284 juveniles were held in custodial institutions at October 2000 and a further 1,912 in ' jails in Indian country' at 30.6.2001.
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The Prison System Information on the federal and state prison and parole systems, One in every 138 residents of the United States, a total of 2131180 inmates, http://crime.about.com/od/prison/
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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."
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Extractions: Last Modified: The steepest declines are in household burglary and theft. Blacks are substantially more likely to be violent crime victims than whites. Handguns are used in about 10% of all violent crimes. Young minority males in central cities are violent crime victims at the highest rates the survey ever reported. Males are much more likely to be victims of violence inflicted by strangers than by family members or other close associates, whereas females are likely to be hurt by family members and close associates as by strangers. 30% of all violent crimes and 25% of home burglaries occur when the victim or victims are away from home on a leisure activity. In approximately half of all female rapes the victim knew the offender. Strangers used some type of weapon in 29% of the offenses, compared to 17% by non stranger rapes. During the last two decades an estimated 37 million victims were injured, and more than 1/3 of those injured had no health insurance or were not eligible for public health benefits.
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Extractions: Dr. Paul Gallant practices optometry in Wesley Hills, NY. Dr. Joanne Eisen practices dentistry in Old Bethpage, NY. Both are Research Associates at the Independence Institute , where Dave Kopel is Research Director. he furor over the Philadelphia police encounter with a would-be carjacker and cop-killer isn't the only public-relations nightmare facing the city's police department. Two thousand reported sex crimes went "uninvestigated" by Philadelphia police between 1995 and 1997 because of "pressure to keep the department's crime numbers low," reported ABC News on July 11. Earlier this year, the department admitted "misreporting" thousands of sexual assaults during the past decade "to make the city appear safer than it was." But when it comes to fudging crime statistics, even the finest Philadelphia number-rearranger can't compare to our British cousins.
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Extractions: Prison rape gets a hearing. By Eli Lehrer fter far too long a delay, Congress may finally face America's most-ignored crime problem. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, earlier this month reintroduced a bill to reduce the massive prison-rape crisis that touches nearly all of the 1.8 million Americans living behind bars. This year's first hearings on the bill will take place Tuesday. Any compassionate person should feel revulsion at the extent of prison rape. The activist group Stop Prisoner Rape estimates that about 240,000 men get raped behind bars each year. By comparison, 2002 saw about 90,000 male-on-female rapes reported to the police in the entire country. Jail house rape victims are often pre-trial detainees or petty criminals: Quite often small, weak, or effeminate men. Given that AIDS infection rates in prison populations stand at almost ten times the levels outside, the prison rape crisis means that an arrest for a minor crime can result in a death sentence. For people in prison, many of whom suffer from a variety of mental illnesses, a rape can send them over the edge into more serious criminal behavior. Most men on death row have a history of sexual abuse.
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Online NewsHour: Crime Report: May 8, 2000 The FBI reports crime in the United States has decreased for the eighth year in a How do we prevent them from recidivating and heading back to prison? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june00/crime_5-08.html
Extractions: The youngest person ever convicted of murder receives his sentence. April 21, 1999: Experts discuss clues to teen violence. Aug. 11, 1998: How should the legal system handle kids who kill? Browse Online NewsHour coverage of the law Congress and youth FBI FBI: Uniform Crime Report RAND JACK RILEY: Well, I think you have to look for something that would help explain why crime fell rather substantially across most of the country and at approximately the same time. And there are very few things that can meet those two criteria in terms of explaining what happened to crime. I would point first to demographics. There's been a rather substantial change in the number of people in the age 15 to 24 bracket that commit most of the crimes here in the country or that are most likely to commit crime, and the second factor is probably economic growth in combination with reduced opportunities in drug marketing and drug trafficking because of declines in drug use.
Extractions: Prisons in America More on This Story: Select One Salim Muwakkil Prison Stats Election 2004 Full Archive Previous Page Stats and Facts Some startling new statistics may bring the issue of America's prison population into the 2004 campaign. The Bureau of Justice Statistics has projected that if current trends continue, one out of every three African American men born in 2001 will go to prison at some point during their lifetime. In addition the Justice Policy Institute has just released a study which shows that prison spending has increased five times as fast as education spending in some battleground states. And, according to the study: "Outside the swing states, states leaning Republican saw their incarceration rates increase at nearly twice the rate of Democrat-leaning states." In addition the Institute estimates, nearly 2 million voters are disenfranchised in swing states because they have felony records. Find out more about Life After Prison on NOW. Prisons are big in the United States. There are more people behind bars literally, and proportionally, than any time in our history. We have a higher percentage of our population in prison than any other nation. And, we keep building more prisons, in fact many locales lobby for new prisons as a tool of economic recovery. What are
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Crime Rate Down, But Prison Population On The Rise What should be our response to crime except punishment and prison? Should be Prison Population on the Rise, so crime Rate Down . http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390996/posts
Extractions: The population of the nation's prisons and jails has grown by about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, according to figures released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. By last June 30 the system held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents. Texas, the state with the most people behind bars, reported that its prison population climbed from 167,532 inmates in 2003 to 169,110 inmates in 2004, an increase of 0.9 percent. Paige Harrison, the report's co-author, said the U.S. increase can be attributed largely to get-tough policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. Among them are mandatory drug sentences, "three-strikes-and-you're-out" laws for repeat offenders and "truth-in-sentencing" laws that restrict early releases. "As a whole most of these policies remain in place," she said. "These policies were a reaction to the rise in crime in the '80s and early '90s." Malcolm Young, executive director of the Sentencing Project, which promotes alternatives to prison, said, "We're working under the burden of laws and practices that have developed over 30 years that have focused on punishment and prison as our primary response to crime."
Extractions: States Face Growing Prison Population Despite Drop in Crime Rate Sun Jul 27, 6:27 PM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - America's prison population grew again in 2002 despite a declining crime rate, costing the federal government and states an estimated $40 billion a year at a time of rampant budget shortfalls. The inmate population in 2002 of more than 2.1 million represented a 2.6 percent increase over 2001, according to a report released Sunday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Preliminary FBI ( news web sites ) statistics showed a 0.2 percent drop in overall crime during the same span. Experts say mandatory sentences, especially for nonviolent drug offenders, are a major reason inmate populations have risen for 30 years. About one of every 143 U.S. residents was in the federal, state or local custody at year's end. "The nation needs to break the chains of our addiction to prison, and find less costly and more effective policies like treatment," said Will Harrell, executive director of the Texas American Civil Liberties Union ( news web sites ). "We need to break the cycle."
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Extractions: FREEDOM FOR EACH PERSON REGARDLESS OF AGE, RACE, RELIGION OR POLITICS HOMEPAGE EXPERIENCES HOW YOU CAN HELP LATEST NEWS ... CONTACT US KAZAKHSTAN PRISONS Courts The present court system functions at three levels: local courts, which handle petty crimes such as pickpocketing and vandalism; province-level courts, which handle offenses such as murder, grand larceny, and organized crime; and the Supreme Court, to which decisions of the lower courts are appealed. Until mid-1995, the Constitutional Court ruled as final arbiter on the constitutionality of government laws and actions in cases of conflict. The present constitution provides guarantees of legal representation for persons accused of a crime, including free representation if necessary, but this right appears to be little recognized by authorities or realized by the public. Pretrial detention is permissible, and a suspect may be held for three days before being charged. After being charged, an accused individual may be held for up to a year before being brought to trial. There is no system of bail; accused individuals remain incarcerated until tried. Both the police and the National Security Committee have the right to violate guarantees of privacy (of the home, telephone, mail, and banks) with the sanction of the procurator general. The theoretical requirement for search warrants and judicial orders for wiretaps and other violations of privacy often is ignored in practice. When the 1995 constitution was approved, a United States official criticized its lack of protection of civil and human rights. Before the approval referendum, Nazarbayev had announced the dissolution of the Constitutional Court, which he replaced in October with a Constitutional Council whose decisions the president could veto.
Stabilization Of Prison Population May Be Deceptive Before the crime rates fell, many states had begun toughening their criminal Several states added so many beds that they have an excess of prison http://www.tgorski.com/news_analysis/stabilization_of_prisoner_population_may_be
Extractions: Gorski - CENAPS, 17900 Dixie Hwy, Homewood, IL 60430, 708-799-5000 www.tgorski.com www.cenaps.com After three decades of explosive growth, the nation's prisoner population may have begun to stabilize. At first I was excited to read the article by David Firestone in the New York Times that announced this leveling of of the prison population. As I read the article, however, it became clear that it's not time to start celebrating. The reason is simple - this nation is using two diametrically opposed approaches to drug crime. One approach is driving up the prisoner population, the other is driving it down. As a result they tend to cancel each other out. These two approaches are: The War on Drugs: The war on drugs, backed up by "get tough" sentencing, increases the prisoner population with relatively little affect on drug availability, drug abuse, or related crime.
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Extractions: Founded in 1976 by former Nixon aide Chuck Colson and led by former Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley, Prison Fellowship is the largest prison outreach and criminal justice reform organization in the world. Prison Fellowship has: Programs in correctional facilities in all 50 U.S. states and 110 countries worldwide
Extractions: Advocate, The Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports The Left's Prison Complex: The case against the case against jail National Review Oct 9, 2000 by Eli Lehrer Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. The Left knows a growth industry when it sees one. Ever since prominent left-wing journalist Mike Davis popularized the term "prison industrial complex" in a 1995 Nation article, self-styled progressives have relentlessly derided America's burgeoning prison system as a racist, profit-driven monster that enriches corporations and wastes tax dollars while doing little to reduce crime. The Left's attack on the prison system is wrong in every major respect. America's prison system doesn't discriminate against blacks, is not growing because of a search for profits, and has made America much safer than other countries. For the Left, attacking the prison system is little more than an excuse to recycle tired anticapitalist canards.
