$99,000
Texas spends almost $99,000 per year for each incarcerated juvenile.
Texas spends almost $99,000 per year for each incarcerated juvenile.
No longer allowed in Nassau County, Long Island, NY. Judge Leonard D. Wexler found that the Fourth Amendment prohibits jail officials from performing such searches on every person sent to the jail, particularly those arrested on a misdemeanor or minor charge like a traffic violation, and those who cannot be reasonably suspected of carrying a…
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One in twenty-seven Maryland adults are current in the correction system. Twenty-seven percent of those are behind bars. This is, sad to say, about par for the national average. In Maryland, it costs $86 per day to lock a person up.
Prison-based gerrymandering.
This is a shame. And stupid. One guy escaped. So what? From the Newark Start Ledger.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports: * At year end 2007, federal and state prisons and local jails held just under 2.3 million inmates (2,293,157). The number of inmates incarcerated in prison or jail increased by 1.5% during the year. * About 1 in 198 U.S. residents was imprisoned with a sentence of more than…
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Maybe you don’t stay up at night thinking about cell phones in prison. And maybe you shouldn’t. But think about it for a moment… we can’t keep cell phones out of the hands of prisoners. Somehow I think that’s significant. The story by Dan Kane in the News & Observer.
But that means that 40% support mandatory prison terms for non-violent drug offenses. Still I guess it’s less than half. Read the story in the Christian Science Monitor.
Something has got to give. We’ll see what.
America’s incarceration population and rate continue to increase. At a cost of about $60 billion per year, we hold 2.3 million people behind bars. Details in the recently released Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletins Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007 and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007. ABC news reports: The report provides a breakdown, noting “of…
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