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U.S. Prison Population Soars in 2003, '04
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| U.S. Prison Population Soars in 2003, '04 Sun Apr 24, 6:38 PM ET By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Growing at a rate of about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, the nation's prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents, the government reported Sunday. Photo AP Photo By last June 30, there were 48,000 more inmates, or 2.3 percent, more than the year before, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The total inmate population has hovered around 2 million for the past few years, reaching 2.1 million on June 30, 2002, and just below that mark a year later. While the crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released, said the report's co-author, Paige Harrison. For example, the number of admissions to federal prisons in 2004 exceeded releases by more than 8,000, the study found. Harrison said the increase can be attributed largely to get-tough policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. Among them are mandatory drug sentences, "three-strikes-and-you're-out" laws for repeat offenders, and "truth-in-sentencing" laws that restrict early releases. "As a whole most of these policies remain in place," she said. "These policies were a reaction to the rise in crime in the '80s and early 90s." Added Malcolm Young, executive director of the Sentencing Project, which promotes alternatives to prison: "We're working under the burden of laws and practices that have developed over 30 years that have focused on punishment and prison as our primary response to crime." He said many of those incarcerated are not serious or violent offenders, but are low-level drug offenders. Young said one way to help lower the number is to introduce drug treatment programs that offer effective ways of changing behavior and to provide appropriate assistance for the mentally ill. According to the Justice Policy Institute, which advocates a more lenient system of punishment, the United States has a higher rate of incarceration than any other country, followed by Britain, China, France, Japan and Nigeria. There were 726 inmates for every 100,000 U.S. residents by June 30, 2004, compared with 716 a year earlier, according to the report by the Justice Department agency. In 2004, one in every 138 U.S. residents was in prison or jail; the previous year it was one in every 140. In 2004, 61 percent of prison and jail inmates were of racial or ethnic minorities, the government said. An estimated 12.6 percent of all black men in their late 20s were in jails or prisons, as were 3.6 percent of Hispanic men and 1.7 percent of white men in that age group, the report said. Other findings include: _State prisons held about 2,500 youths under 18 in 2004. That compares with a peak, in 1995, of about 5,300. Local jails held about 7,000 youths, down from 7,800 in 1995. _In the year ending last June 30, 13 states reported an increase of at least 5 percent in the federal system, led by Minnesota, at about 13 percent; Montana at 10.5 percent; Arkansas at 9 percent. Among the 12 states that reported a decline in the inmate population were Alabama, 7 percent; Connecticut, 2.5 percent; and Ohio, 2 percent. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...on&sid=84439559 |
omg, 1 in 138 people in the US are incarcerated. That's fuct!
Even more fuct up.. 12.6% of all black men in their late 20s were in jail. amazing!! 
you know you're screwed when you start dealing with whole-numbered percentages..
Just do a google on the prison stats for Texas....now they are amazzing....i posted some stuff on this a couple of weeks ago but im to lazy to find and repost it.
One statistic i do remember is......
The US has only 5% of the worlds population........yet it holds a quarter of the worlds prisioners......
Nothing beats sweeping your problems under the rug 
Bears repeating:
While the crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released
Lets do it Bush's Style.. Get them all into a gas chamber, and problem solved!
take advantage people...
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www.cyberspace-inmates.com
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| Originally posted by LiquidX Lets do it Bush's Style.. Get them all into a gas chamber, and problem solved! |
If you do the crime, you gotta do the time!
Take people off death row and all killers, as well as child molestors and stick each one in a 9x7 concrete room that has no windows and only a mattress on the floor....give them no TV, no books, NOTHING but a mattress...they get 2 meals a day given to them in their cells and never see the light of day, leave them there FOREVER...never let them out..frig the death penalty...thats too easy for them...but sticking someone in a room like that will drive them mad...
Some of you will say i am inhumane, cruel, or whatever u wanna call me...and 2 wrongs dont make a right. But give me one good reason why someone who takes another persons life or hurt s achild should ever be able to smile, to watch TV, to see trees or any other thing these prisoners get....prison is a joke and so is the death penalty..what i propose is real punishment.
The people they killed will never watch TV, read a book, see trees, breath fresh air..so why should their killers?
Fuck em..its REAL easy...if you dont want to have what i propose happen to you......DONT KILL or hurt a child...not a hard concept to grasp.
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| Originally posted by zig Just do a google on the prison stats for Texas....now they are amazzing....i posted some stuff on this a couple of weeks ago but im to lazy to find and repost it. One statistic i do remember is...... The US has only 5% of the worlds population........yet it holds a quarter of the worlds prisioners...... |
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| Originally posted by josh4 wouldn't that be Nazi style? |
If you can't do the time, don't commit the crime.
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| Originally posted by ShadoWolf If you can't do the time, don't commit the crime. |
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