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  • Crime and Incarceration, the Midyear/Preliminary Reports

    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...
  • Midyear 2007 Jail Statistics Are Now Available

    The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has just released Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007 . This statistical report lists the number of inmates being held in local jails on June 29, 2007, as 780,581. The report contains information on jail capacity, admissions, jail population growth, statistics on the 50...
    Posted to Today's Jails (Weblog) by Sandy Schilling on 06-09-2008
  • Statistic: Number of US Prisons

    We are interested in finding out how many prisons are in use in the United States, but I am having trouble locating this statistic anywhere. I would appreciate any help I could get. Thanks a million!
    Posted to General Topics (Forum) by lsalinas on 04-03-2008
  • Re: Bed Vacancies

    Thank you so much for your reply!!! I was actually referring to the capacity rate of the facililty. For instance, number of empty beds divided by the number of beds in the facility. I have discovered that there was no vacancy rate standard in 1995. This may hold true today. Most of my research found...
    Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Amy on 01-24-2008
  • Probation and Parole in the United States, 2006

    The latest statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics , on probation and parole populations in the United States at year end 2006 are available here .
  • Prisoners in 2006

    The official statistics from DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics are out for 2006 , with some interesting findings. "During 2006, the prison population grew at a faster rate than in the previous 5 years...However, the 2006 growth rate was less than the annual growth rates of between 3.4% and...
  • Violent Crime: On The Rise

    The Police Executive Research Forum has published, Violent Crime in America: 24 Months of Alarming Trends , which lists violent crime statistics for 2004-2006. In this report "...many cities experienced double-digit or even triple-digit percentage increases in homicides and other violence..."...
    Posted to Today's Jails (Weblog) by Sandy Schilling on 11-07-2007
  • Census Data On Correctional Facility Populations

    Today ABC News published an Associated Press story, "Census Study Eyes Blacks in Prison: More Blacks and Hispanics Live in Prison Cells Than in College Dorms" . This was based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau . You can read the press-release from the Census Bureau and access other data and...
    Posted to Today's Jails (Weblog) by Sandy Schilling on 09-27-2007
  • Welcome Books

    Does anyone have any examples of Welcome Books for there facility? I am looking at creating one for when we have VIP's and auditors to help orient them to our facility and highlight our best practices.
    Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Jeremy881 on 08-13-2007
  • Re: Info on IMS/2 - inmate management system (from CCA)?

    The systems is really called Offender Management Systems. The company is Digital Solutions/Inmate Telephone Inc.and the website is www.dsicdi.com . This program is ran through Citrix and uses crystal reports. I personally preferred the ACIS(Army Correctional Information Systems) which was built by ACER...
    Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Jeremy881 on 08-13-2007
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