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Prison Policy Initiative. 2021 data for state prisons. 2019 data for jails. Appendix 1: State Data States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021. Prison Policy Initiative. 2019 data for state prisons and jails. Rate Per 100,000 and Rank by State of Crime and Imprisonment by US States 1978 - 2012; Crime, Punishment and Ratio of Crime to ...
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws. Many of the documents behind the series are annotated below.
Over the past two decades, more than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through one of Slattery’s prisons, boot camps or detention centers, according to a Huffington Post analysis of juvenile facility data. The private prison industry has long fueled its growth on the proposition that it is a boon to taxpayers, delivering better ...
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama
As of October 2015, the United States has the second highest incarceration rate in the world with 698 per 100,000 population. [7] Compared to other locations, 55% of countries and territories have prison rates lower than 155 per 100,000 population. [7] The average cost of incarceration rose to $31,977.65 in 2015. [8]
Giddings State School, a Texas Youth Commission facility in unincorporated Lee County, Texas. The United States incarcerates more of its youth than any other country in the world, through the juvenile courts and the adult criminal justice system, which reflects the larger trends in incarceration practices in the United States.
[1] [2] In 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio published a comprehensive study of the pay-to-stay policy throughout the state, the first detailed study of its kind. [1] [3] As of 2021, prisons in about 40 states have pay-to-stay programs with fees and implementation often varying by county. [4]
American Correctional Association logo. The American Correctional Association (ACA; called the National Prison Association before 1954) is a private, non-profit, non-governmental trade association and accrediting body for the corrections industry, the oldest and largest such association in the world.