TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Jonah Goldberg Last August he wrote, Number in Prison Grows Despite crime Reduction. The two major measurements of crime in the United States are the FBI s Uniform http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20010619.shtml
Extractions: printer-friendly version June 19, 2001 Prison boom results in less crime If I really, really want to, I can kill you. Even if you know some kung-fu technique to remove my still-beating heart, if I'm sufficiently determined I can murder you to death, as the saying goes. This goes for robbing, burglarizing, and even excessive mopery. Almost nothing can stop me.
Crime Statistics crime Statistics. Because there are vast amounts of statistical information Women were 5% of the State prison inmates in 1991, up from 4% in 1986. http://www.aphf.org/crimestats.html
Extractions: In 1999, U.S. residents age 12 or older experienced approximately 28.8 million crimes, according to 1999 findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Almost two-thirds of defendants charged with a felony in the 75 most populated counties in May 1996 were released from jail pending disposition of their case Most victims and perpetrators in homicides are male. Women were 5% of the State prison inmates in 1991, up from 4% in 1986. Most law enforcement officers are killed with firearms, particularly handguns More than 7 of every 10 jail inmates had prior sentences to probation or incarceration.
Study Shows Building Prisons Did Not Prevent Repeat Crimes The rate at which inmates released from state prisons commit new crimes rose The report examined 272111 former inmates in 15 states during the first http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0603-02.htm
Extractions: Printer Friendly Version E-Mail This Article Published on Monday, June 3, 2002 in the New York Times Study Shows Building Prisons Did Not Prevent Repeat Crimes by Fox Butterfield The rate at which inmates released from state prisons commit new crimes rose from 1983 to 1994, a time when the number of people behind bars doubled, according to a Justice Department study released yesterday. The report found that 67 percent of inmates released from state prisons in 1994 committed at least one serious new crime within three years. That is 5 percent higher than among inmates released in 1983. Criminologists generally agree that the prison-building binge of the last 25 years, in which the number of Americans incarcerated quadrupled to almost two million, has helped reduce the crime rate simply by keeping criminals off the streets. There has been more debate about whether longer sentences and the increase in the number of prisoners have also helped to deter people from committing crimes. The new report, some crime experts say, suggests that the answer is no. "The main thing this report shows is that our experiment with building lots more prisons as a deterrent to crime has not worked," said Joan Petersilia, a professor of criminology at the University of California at Irvine and an expert on parole.
Study Finds 2.6% Increase In U.S. Prison Population States do not have the money to build more prisons now, he said, The number of inmates in federal prisons for gun crimes increased by 68 percent from http://www.wehaitians.com/study finds 2 6 percent increase in us prison populati
Extractions: Special Report Want to send this page or a link to a friend? Click on mail at the top of this window. Posted July 28, 2003 Study Finds 2.6% Increase in U.S. Prison Population By FOX BUTTERFIELD, The New York Times T HE nation's prison population grew 2.6 percent last year, the largest increase since 1999, according to a study by the Justice Department. The jump came despite a small decline in serious crime in 2002. It also came when a growing number of states facing large budget deficits have begun trying to reduce prison costs by easing tough sentencing laws passed in the 1990's, thereby decreasing the number of inmates. Advertisement "The key finding in the report is this growth, which is somewhat surprising in its size after several years of relative stability in the prison population," said Allen J. Beck, an author of the report. Mr. Beck is the chief prison demographer for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical arm of the Justice Department, which releases an annual study of the number of people incarcerated in the United States. At the end of 2002, there were 2,166,260 Americans in local jails, state and federal prisons and juvenile detention facilities, the report found.
Prison Links - Home Alabama Prison Project The Alabama Prison Project (APP) is a prison advocacy group Legal Authority The United States Constitution (Added 10-10-2002, http://www.prisonlinks.com/
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US Notches World's Highest Incarceration Rate | Csmonitor.com WASHINGTON More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, That s 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html
Extractions: WASHINGTON More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world. It's the first time the US government has released estimates of the extent of imprisonment, and the report's statistics have broad implications for everything from state fiscal crises to how other nations view the American experience.
Hawaii Attorney General - CPJA: Research & Statistics (For basic UCR statistics on reported Index Crimes by district and beat on Oahu, to Prison in the State of Hawaii; Weapons Used in Violent Crimes, http://www.cpja.ag.state.hi.us/rs/index.shtml
Extractions: Branch publications such as the annual Crime in Hawaii Uniform Crime Report provide critical, comprehensive data and analysis to the Attorney General and other criminal justice agencies and professionals, legislators, crime prevention and community mobilization groups, academic and research institutions, service providers, news media, and the general public. These reports and data provide an objective framework for the consideration of crime problems facing Hawaii. Branch staff also provide technical assistance and serve on several crime-related committees. The Research and Statistics Branch, through the administering of grants from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Justice Research and Statistics Association . The Branch directs the state Uniform Crime Reporting Program in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Hawaii's county police departments. Crime In Hawaii - Uniform Crime Reporting Program (For basic UCR statistics on reported Index Crimes by district and beat on Oahu,
