Corrections Community

It's that time, when preliminary/midyear data are released by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics regarding crime rates and incarceration for 2007. In its preliminary crime rate report , the FBI finds: " Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout...

The National Conference of State Legislatures has published a report that examines state legislative actions during 2007, the elements that drove these actions, and the potential impact of sentencing and corrections in the near term. Principal legislative concerns were/are burgeoning prison populations...

The Pew Center on the States has released a new report examining how states are coping with burgeoning prison populations and whether public safety is effectively being purchased with high incarceration costs. In One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 , Pew reviews the varying state trends in prison...

The much-awaited Pew report is out. Public Safety, Public Spending : Forecasting America's Prison Population 2007-2011 predicts a 13 percent jump in state and federal prison populations in the next five years. The report examines national and state trends (including state by state projections), operational...

A new edition of the World Prison Population List is now available. Produced by Roy Walmsley of King's College London International Centre for Prison Studies, the list makes a best attempt to draw together statistics from countries around the world. It complements the Centre's World Prison Brief...

With many thanks to Michael Connelly of Corrections Sentencing , who serves on a Pew committee, we learn of an important report to be released February 14th by the Public Safety Performance Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Here is what Pew has to say about it: On Wednesday, February 14, at 9:30...

With the FBI reporting violent crime on the rise nationwide, the Vera Institute of Justice has just issued a timely report tackling the thorny issue of the effectiveness of increased incarceration as a strategy for combating crime. Reconsidering Incarceration : New Directions for Reducing Crime weighs...

"The US has less than 5% of the world's population but over 23% of the world's incarcerated people." In a new Fact Sheet , the National Council on Crime and Delinquency compares United States incarceration rates with those of other countries around the world. The report relies in part...