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Do Prisons Reduce Crime? Crime News

March 9, 2010

Crime in America.Net staff
We have been in and out of prisons hundreds of times. You can’t walk out of a prison without feeling that they are massive wastes of humanity. Prisons are overcrowded and lack services that most offenders need to survive in the outside world.
Prisons are incredibly expensive and most states are trying to find [...]

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Crime Statistics: No Prison Sentences for Most Felony Convictions

January 25, 2010

 
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Gentlereaders:  A student was asking about incarceration in the United States. He is aware that the United States is the world’s leader in rates of incarceration per a number of sources. According to the New York Times:
“The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it [...]

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Prison/Jail:1 in every 133 U.S. residents in prisons or local jails.

December 9, 2009

Gentlereaders: Thirty-five of the fifty states are undergoing severe fiscal difficulties with the remainder restricting budgets as much as possible. Considering this, it was inevitable that states would begin the process of cutting prison populations. In some states, corrections spend more money than most agencies. States have realized that they cannot control their budgets without [...]

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Sex Offenders:Recidivism of Female Sex Offenders

December 5, 2009

 
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Dear Gentlereaders: Once again, there are differences in the offending characteristics of women and male offenders in the study below.
Additional Department of Justice research indicate considerable differences in crime characteristics for women offenders (mostly non-violent crime) histories of abuse and neglect, drug addiction and mental health issues with women offenders having significantly more social [...]

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Sex Offender Tracking–Can States Keep Up?

November 23, 2009

Dear readers: This article from the Washington Post is a continuation of news coverage detailing growing complexities of justice administration coupled with severe budget difficulties in 35 of the 50 states. At what point do the “complexities” simply overwhelm the capacities of states to deal with crime issues?
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Prison Capacity–Is it Time to Cut Prison Beds?

November 19, 2009

Gentlereaders: Approximately 35 of the 50 states are experiencing severe fiscal problems. Many are doing what was considered unthinkable just a couple of years ago; they are cutting the budgets of criminal justice agencies. The discussion in California has included a possible release of up to 40,000 prison inmates. Some states are adding rehabilitative services [...]

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Serious Mental Illnesses among Nation’s Jail Populations

June 24, 2009

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WASHINGTON (June 1, 2009) – A new study released today of more than 20,000 men and women entering jail offers the most accurate accounting in more than two decades of the number of adults with serious mental illnesses in these facilities.
Using screening [...]

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Prison Population Growth

June 13, 2009

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GROWTH IN PRISON AND JAIL POPULATIONS SLOWING:
16 States Report Declines in the Number of Prisoners
WASHINGTON – As of June 30, 2008, state and federal correctional authorities had jurisdiction or legal authority over 1,610,584 prisoners. Additionally, 785,556 inmates were held in custody in [...]

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People Under Correctional Supervision

June 13, 2009

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ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WERE IN PRISON OR JAIL OR
ON PROBATION OR PAROLE IN 2007
WASHINGTON — More than 7.3 million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation’s prisons or jails or on probation or parole at yearend [...]

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