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Characteristics of Inmates - Race, Ethnicity, Age, And Gender, Types Of Crimes, Education Of Prison And Jail Inmates
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Prisoners overwhelmingly represent societal "failures," young men (and a small percentage of women and older men) who have had unsuccessful
experiences in their families, schools, military services, and labor force. They suffer disproportionately from child abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, poor self-concept, and deficient social skills. They tend to be hostile to others, and especially to authority.
—James B. Jacobs, "Inside Prisons," Crime File Study Guide (Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, not dated)
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In 2003 some 1.3 million men and 92,785 women were serving sentences in state and federal prisons, according to Paige M. Harrison and Allen J. Beck in Prisoners in 2003 (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2004). (See Table 5.1.) Expressed in percentages of total prisoners 35% were non-Hispanic whites, 44%
non-Hispanic African-Americans, 19% were Hispanics, and 1.9% were of othe…
Between 1980 and 2001, the number of people in the state correctional system increased by 309%, including an increase of 76.8% between 1990 and 2001, according to Key Facts at a Glance (Bureau of Justice Statistics, July 27, 2003). Most inmates were in state prisons rather than in federal facilities or local jails. Figure 5.1
shows a twenty-year history of state incarcerations divided by type of c…
Early in 2003, the Bureau of Justice Statistics issued a special report, Education and Correctional Populations, on the educational attainment of prison and jail inmates. Data on prisoners are for the benchmark years of 1991 and 1997. The study utilized surveys of inmates in correctional facilities for those two years, surveys
of local jail inmates conducted in 1989 and 1996, Current Population S…
The Bureau of Justice Statistics published a special report titled Prior Abuse Reported by Inmates and Probationers in 1999. The report was prepared from survey data collected from state and federal prisoners in 1997, inmates of local jails in 1996, and the 1995 Survey of Adults on Probation. The special report found that
18.7% of state prisoners, 9.5% of federal prisoners, 16.4% of jail inmates, …
In 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available, some 1.5 million children had a parent in prison (Christopher J. Mumola, Incarcerated Parents and Their Children, Bureau of Justice Statistics, August 2000). At the state level, 642,300 prisoners had 1.325 million minor children being taken care of by others. In
federal prisons, 79,200 prisoners had left 173,900 children in others'…
There are a number of active gangs operating among the inmates in prisons. "The environment in most U.S. prisons is ripe for recruiting and controlling gang members because inmates tend to form associations for self-protection along racial, ethnic, and cultural lines," according to the National Gang Threat Assessment (National
Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations, February 200…
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