Subtitles: A briefing paper on crime related topics for President-elect Trump, and everyone else. Author By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Thirty-five years of supervising public…
View More Donald Trump And Crime-A Briefing PaperCategory: Prison-Jail
“Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?”
Subtitles Do offender rehabilitation programs significantly reduce crime? Fifth in a series of articles on parole and probation research and practice. If swift but certain…
View More “Nothing Works” in Corrections Replaced by “Nothing Works Well?”What Works in Parole and Probation-Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan
Subtitles Does parole and probation research show declines in arrests and reincarceration? What Works in Parole and Probation? Third in a series of articles…
View More What Works in Parole and Probation-Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry PlanAdvocates: Tell Us Who Belongs in Prison
Subtitles: Is the Door is Closing on the Criminal Justice Reform Movement? What Do Americans Want Regarding Prison Policy? What do Americans Want from Cops?…
View More Advocates: Tell Us Who Belongs in PrisonCollege Educations in Prison: Misleading the Public?-Updated/Corrected
College Educations in Prison: Misleading the Public?-Updated/Corrected We strongly support programs in prison that offer a chance to end the monstrously high rate of return…
View More College Educations in Prison: Misleading the Public?-Updated/CorrectedRecidivism Among Federal and State Offenders
Summary This report provides a broad overview of key findings from the United States Sentencing Commission’s study of recidivism of federal offenders. The Commission studied…
View More Recidivism Among Federal and State OffendersDoes Occupational Training for Offenders Reduce Crime?
Prison Work Program Rated “No Effects” Minnesota’s Affordable Homes Program is a prison work program designed to increase the availability of affordable low-income housing while…
View More Does Occupational Training for Offenders Reduce Crime?Bernie Sanders’ Mass Release of Inmates is Insane
Editorial: We strongly support the discussion of alternatives to incarceration, and reviews of sentencing policy. We are equally supportive of adequately funded offender reentry programs.…
View More Bernie Sanders’ Mass Release of Inmates is InsaneIncarceration in the US Increases
Incarceration: Despite a decade of debate over the use (or overuse) of jails and prisons in the United States, incarceration (based on raw numbers of…
View More Incarceration in the US IncreasesJail Populations Increasingly Female and White. Females Increase 48%
On December 31, 2013, U.S. jails held an estimated 731,570 inmates. In addition to sentenced offenders and convicted offenders awaiting their sentences, this total included…
View More Jail Populations Increasingly Female and White. Females Increase 48%Most State Prisoners In For Violent Crimes
U.S. state and federal prisons held an estimated 1,561,500 inmates on December 31, 2014, a decrease of 15,400 prisoners (one percent) since yearend 2013, the…
View More Most State Prisoners In For Violent CrimesInmate Deaths Increase For Three Consecutive Years
For the third consecutive year, the number of inmates who died while in the custody of local jails or state prisons increased. A total of…
View More Inmate Deaths Increase For Three Consecutive YearsFemales confined in jails increase by 18 percent-males decline-jails in the US
County and city jails held an estimated 744,600 inmates at midyear 2014, which was significantly lower than the peak population of 785,500 inmates at midyear…
View More Females confined in jails increase by 18 percent-males decline-jails in the USLife imprisonment sentences are rare in the federal criminal justice system
Life imprisonment sentences are rare in the federal criminal justice system. Virtually all offenders convicted of a federal crime are released from prison eventually and…
View More Life imprisonment sentences are rare in the federal criminal justice systemReleased Prisoners Arrested or Returned to Incarceration
Crime in America.Net Notice: An updated version of this article is available at https://www.crimeinamerica.net/2010/09/29/percent-of-released-prisoners-returning-to-incarceration/. Updated in November of 2014. Update of a 2010 article. We have…
View More Released Prisoners Arrested or Returned to IncarcerationInmates Increase in US Prisons
U.S. state and federal prisons held an estimated 1,574,700 inmates on December 31, 2013, an increase of 4,300 prisoners over yearend 2012, the Justice Department’s…
View More Inmates Increase in US PrisonsFemales in American Jails Increase 11 Percent. Males Decrease
The female inmate population increased 10.9 percent (up 10,000 inmates) between midyear 2010 and 2013, while the male population declined 4.2 percent (down 27,500 inmates)
View More Females in American Jails Increase 11 Percent. Males Decrease42 percent of felony convictions result in a sentence to prison. 33 percent go to jail
Incarceration sentences were almost evenly divided between prison (36%) and jail (37%) in 2009. Felony convictions were more likely to result in a sentence to prison (42%) than jail (33%). Nearly all incarceration sentences for misdemeanor convictions were to jail (53%) rather than prison (3%).
View More 42 percent of felony convictions result in a sentence to prison. 33 percent go to jailSeven Million People in US Adult Corrections
The total U.S. correctional population (on probation, parole, in prison or jail) decreased for the fourth consecutive year during 2012 (down 51,000 offenders or 0.7 percent), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was the smallest decrease in the population since 2009.
View More Seven Million People in US Adult CorrectionsPrison Programs Can Reduce Crime
Crime in America We have praised research from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy in the past as being user friendly and to-the-point. The…
View More Prison Programs Can Reduce Crime