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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 News: Do Inmates Convicted of Murder Commit Violent Crime While in Prison?

February 5, 2010

Crime News: Sorensen and Cunningham examined the characteristics and disciplinary data of approximately 70,000 inmates in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) in 2002and 2003 to study the relationship between conviction offense and prison violence.The main focus of the study was to assess whether inmates convicted of homicide were more violence-prone than other offenders. The [...]

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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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Crime Statistics: Juvenile and Adult Incarceration– Declines Seem Inevitable

January 15, 2010

Gentlereaders: We previously reported that 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 government agencies. States have realized that they cannot [...]

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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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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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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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