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Posted by Greg Reeves on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 0820 AM in Crime stats, Prisons administration Permalink
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
7 million in jail, on probation or parole
There's no such thing as too many prison statistics, and there's a new batch of them from the fount of all such numbers, the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice.
  • WASHINGTON - A record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year. Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year. More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more. In the 25-29 age group, 8.1 percent of black men — about one in 13 — are incarcerated, compared with 2.6 percent of Hispanic men and 1.1 percent of white men. And it's not much different among women. By the end of 2005, black women were more than twice as likely as Hispanics and over three times as likely as white women to be in prison.
The BJS website does not have the new annual report yet.

2. Crime Scene KC
Posted by Greg Reeves on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 0820 AM in Crime stats, Prisons administration Permalink Comments (18) TrackBack (0)
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Rescuers save most of alligator victim
In Florida, you smoke some crack, throw off your clothes and fall asleep by the water - a nice night right? Wrong - an alligator drags you off , and it's all rescuers can do to save your naked self. Hat tip to reader Betty D.! Posted by Greg Reeves on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 04:48 PM in Drug offenses Other crimes Public safety Permalink ...
DUI ignition-interlock called useless
In traffic safety, some truths are counter-intuitive. Driver education for teens, for example, is useless, and has been known to be useless since the 1970s, when federal authorities found out and ended funding for high school programs. Not only did studies find that accident rates among young drivers were generally no different with or without driver education, but in some cases it was worse than useless, by giving young male drivers overconfidence. Now prominent DUI defense attorney Lawrence Taylor has an opinion piece in Business Week magazine saying ignition-interlock devices to prevent drunk driving are useless. He cites a

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