Texas spends almost $99,000 per year for each incarcerated juvenile.
Tag: incarceration
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Strip Searches
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 concealed weapon or drugs.
I still say they’re OK for Baltimore City. The courts may disagree.
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1 in 27
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.
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More people behind bars
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 1 year in a federal or state prison.
* Overall, more than 7.3 million people were under correctional supervision, 1 in every 31 adults.Adam Gelb Of the Pew Center said “this report is yet another reminder to states of the size of the prison problem. Especially in tough economic times, they have to ask whether spending nearly $50 billion a year to keep one in 100 adults behind bars is giving us our money’s worth in terms of public safety.”
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Can you order pizza?
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.
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60% oppose mandatory minimum sentences
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.
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Overcrowded California Prisons
Something has got to give. We’ll see what.
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2.3 million behind bars
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.
The report provides a breakdown, noting “of the 2.3 million inmates in custody, 2.1 million were men and 208,300 were women. Black males represented the largest percentage (35.4 percent) of inmates held in custody, followed by white males (32.9 percent) and Hispanic males (17.9 percent).”
The United States leads the industrialized world in incarceration. In fact, the U.S. rate of incarceration (762 per 100,000) is five to eight times that of other highly developed countries, according to The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice think tank.