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1 in 136 U.S. Residents Behind Bars By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON - Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
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The total on June 30, 2005, was 56,428 more than at the same time in 2004, the government reported Sunday. That 2.6 percent increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates.
Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997, researcher Allen J. Beck said. That was a 4.7 percent growth rate, compared with a 1.6 percent increase in people held in state and federal prisons.
Prisons accounted for about two-thirds of all inmates, or 1.4 million, while the other third, nearly 750,000, were in local jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Beck, the bureau's chief of corrections statistics, said the increase in the number of people in the 3,365 local jails is due partly to their changing role. Jails often hold inmates for state or federal systems, as well as people who have yet to begin serving a sentence.
"The jail population is increasingly unconvicted," Beck said. "Judges are perhaps more reluctant to release people pretrial."
The report by the Justice Department agency found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, meaning many of them are awaiting trial.
Overall, 738 people were locked up for every 100,000 residents, compared with a rate of 725 at mid-2004. The states with the highest rates were Louisiana and Georgia, with more than 1 percent of their populations in prison or jail. Rounding out the top five were Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
The states with the lowest rates were Maine, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Men were 10 times to 11 times more likely than women to be in prison or jail, but the number of women behind bars was growing at a faster rate, said Paige M. Harrison, the report's other author.
The racial makeup of inmates changed little in recent years, Beck said. In the 25-29 age group, an estimated 11.9 percent of black men were in prison or jails, compared with 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males.
Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, which supports alternatives to prison, said the incarceration rates for blacks were troubling.
"It's not a sign of a healthy community when we've come to use incarceration at such rates," he said.
Mauer also criticized sentencing guidelines, which he said remove judges' discretion, and said arrests for drug and parole violations swell prisons.
"If we want to see the prison population reduced, we need a much more comprehensive approach to sentencing and drug policy," he said.
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1 hour, 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
ADVERTISEMENT
The total on June 30, 2005, was 56,428 more than at the same time in 2004, the government reported Sunday. That 2.6 percent increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates.
Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997, researcher Allen J. Beck said. That was a 4.7 percent growth rate, compared with a 1.6 percent increase in people held in state and federal prisons.
Prisons accounted for about two-thirds of all inmates, or 1.4 million, while the other third, nearly 750,000, were in local jails, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Beck, the bureau's chief of corrections statistics, said the increase in the number of people in the 3,365 local jails is due partly to their changing role. Jails often hold inmates for state or federal systems, as well as people who have yet to begin serving a sentence.
"The jail population is increasingly unconvicted," Beck said. "Judges are perhaps more reluctant to release people pretrial."
The report by the Justice Department agency found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, meaning many of them are awaiting trial.
Overall, 738 people were locked up for every 100,000 residents, compared with a rate of 725 at mid-2004. The states with the highest rates were Louisiana and Georgia, with more than 1 percent of their populations in prison or jail. Rounding out the top five were Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
The states with the lowest rates were Maine, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Men were 10 times to 11 times more likely than women to be in prison or jail, but the number of women behind bars was growing at a faster rate, said Paige M. Harrison, the report's other author.
The racial makeup of inmates changed little in recent years, Beck said. In the 25-29 age group, an estimated 11.9 percent of black men were in prison or jails, compared with 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and 1.7 percent of white males.
Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, which supports alternatives to prison, said the incarceration rates for blacks were troubling.
"It's not a sign of a healthy community when we've come to use incarceration at such rates," he said.
Mauer also criticized sentencing guidelines, which he said remove judges' discretion, and said arrests for drug and parole violations swell prisons.
"If we want to see the prison population reduced, we need a much more comprehensive approach to sentencing and drug policy," he said.
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Now for numbers in line with the number of ethnic persons incarcerated they have a large percentage because there are not that many of them in relationship to other groups numbers..
3% of illegals out of how many Illegals?????As compared to 40% whites out of how many whites that are incarcerated compared to the number of whites in the USA.? Big difference in the numbers from that angle..
Stats?http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/jailrair.htm
This will explain the graph.
Line chart of the number of black non-Hispanic jail inmates per 100,000 black non-Hispanic U.S. residents, the number of white non-Hispanic jail inmates per 100,000 white non-Hispanic U.S. residents, and the number of Hispanic inmates of any race per 100,000 Hispanic U.S. residents from 1990 to 2004 (three lines, one for each status). Throughout the period, the jail incarceration rate among blacks was greatest, followed by that among Hispanics, followed by that among whites.
The largest percentage increase in the incarceration rate among blacks in jail during the 1990 to 2004 period occurred in 1997, when it rose 10.3% (from 640 in 1996 to 706 in 1997). Black incarceration rates fluctuated throughout the decade but trended generally upward, and ended the decade at 736 per 100,000 residents. Overall, the incarceration rate among black inmates (765 per 100,000 U.S. residents) was 36% higher in 2004 than in 1990.
The largest percentage increase in the incarceration rate among Hispanics in jail during the 1990 to 2004 period also occurred in 1997, when it increased 6.2% (from 276 in 1996 to 293 in 1997). The incarceration rate among Hispanics fluctuated during the 1990's and 2000 from a low of 245 in 1990 to a high of 293 in 1997. Overall, the incarceration rate among Hispanic jail inmates was 7% higher in 2004 than in 1990.
The largest percentage increase in the incarceration rate among whites in jail during the 1990 to 2004 period occurred in 1998, when it increased 6.8% (from 117 in 1997 to 125 in 1998). The white incarceration rate rose steadily between 1990 and 2004, increasing 80% in that 14-year period.[:D]
Only 3.9% are hispanic? I thought our jails were jammed full of illegal aliens to the point of bursting [:0]. I read that here on GB so it MUST be the truth!
You are reading the statistics wrong. It says that 3.9% of all Hispanics males between the ages of 25-29 living in the US are in prison not that only 3.9% of the prison inmates are Hispanic.
So of males between 25-29 about one in eight blacks, one in twenty-six Hispanics, and one in fifty-nine whites are in jail or prison.
CWatson
The author is making quite an assumption!
I think we should make every effort to increase our prison population ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, by about 13-20 million for starters![}:)]
But maybe that's just me.
No place in that report does it say 3.9% ILLEGAL ALIENS, it says 3.9% HISPANIC. Learn to read people.
The 3.9% is not 3.9% of the imprisoned population. It means that of all Hispanics, 3.9% are imprisoned. It is 3.9% of all Hispanics are behind bars, 11.9% of all blacks, and 1.7% of all whites are behind bars. Also, it stipulates the age group 25 to 29 years old.
It did not say that 3.9% of the people in prison are Hispanic, it says that 3.9% of all the Hispanics, between the ages of 25 and 29, in America are behind bars.
Tommy Chong (of comedy duo Cheech and Chong obviously) was jailed for selling novelty bongs with his likeness. For crying out loud, I've never done pot and don't intend to but I would probably buy one as a joke, since I am a big fan of his movies. Did he really deserve to go to jail for that? no. is the law stupid? yes.
How many times did the feds crank up the jail time for some offense just because the offender happened to have guns in his car or his house?
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html
Drug arrests has the U.S. prison population "swelled" by about 40%.
So if there 1 in 136 in prison - at any particular moment there must be at least on member of GB in prison?[:D]
Yes there was. He died in Prison.
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=197737
Only 3.9% are hispanic? I thought our jails were jammed full of illegal aliens to the point of bursting [:0]. I read that here on GB so it MUST be the truth!
Two other members beat me to it and pointed out that your reading of the simple opening post was.......wrong. It seemed like you were gleeful that you had "caught a mistake" in the statistic showing hispanics commit a disproportionate amount of crime.
What, no comment? Oh, your foot is in your mouth.[:o)][:D][}:)]
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House Report 109-345 - Part 1 - BORDER PROTECTION, ANTITERRORISM, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CONTROL ACT OF 2005
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PURPOSE AND SUMMARY
The purpose of H.R. 4437, the `Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005,' is to ensure the proper enforcement of the current immigration laws, create additional mechanisms to prevent illegal immigration, assist in the prohibition of hiring illegal immigrants, and to enhance border security.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE LEGISLATION
The number of resident illegal aliens in the United States is estimated to be about 11 million, 1
[Footnote] and approximately 500,000 illegal aliens enter the country unlawfully each year. 2
[Footnote] The United States has experienced a drastic increase in crime committed by illegal aliens, particularly by illegal aliens that are members of criminal gangs. These criminal alien gangs are becoming increasingly prevalent throughout the country. 3
[Footnote] This disturbing trend is evidenced by the growing number of Federal inmates who are non-citizens, which is rapidly approaching 25 percent of the prison population. 4
[Footnote]
[Footnote 1: See Steven Camarota, Immigrants at Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population in 2005, 2005 Center for Immigration Studies 23 (nearly 11 million in March 2005); Jeffrey Passel, Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population, 2005 Pew Hispanic Center 1 (10.3 million in March 2004, estimate of nearly 11 million in March 2005).]
[Footnote 2: See Immigrants at Mid-Decade at 4 (the total resident illegal alien population increased by about 2.5 to 2.7 million between March 2000 and March 2005; new illegal alien arrivals comprised 3.6 to 3.8 million persons).]
[Footnote 3: See, e.g., Immigration and the Alien Gang Epidemic: Problems and Solutions: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Immigration, Border Security and Claims of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong. (2005); Heather MacDonald, The Immigrant Gang Plague, the City Journal, Summer 2004; Heather MacDonald, The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave, The City Journal, Winter 2004.]
[Footnote 4: See Paige Harrison and Jennifer Karberg, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2003, Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin at 5 (May 2004)(23.5 percent of all Federal inmates were noncitizens as of June 30, 2003).]
Despite the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 5
[Footnote] which made it unlawful for an employer to knowingly employ illegal aliens and established an employment eligibility verification system for new hires, illegal aliens comprise a significant portion of the employed population. Estimates of the number of illegal immigrants employed in various industries include: 17 percent of workers in building cleaning and maintenance occupations; 14 percent of private household workers; 13 percent of accommodation industry workers; 13 percent of food manufacturing industry workers; 12 percent of the workers in construction and extractive occupations (and 10 percent of workers in the construction industry); 11 percent of workers in food preparation and serving occupations (and 10 percent of workers in the food service industry); 8 percent of workers in production occupations (and 6 percent of workers in the manufacturing industry); and 4.3 percent of workers in the overall workforce. 6
[Footnote]
[Footnote 5: Pub. L. No. 99-603.]
[Footnote 6: See Jeffrey Passel, Unauthorized Migrants: Numbers and Characteristics, 2005 Pew Hispanic Center 27, 29 (2004 figures).]
The presence of large numbers of illegal aliens in the United States demonstrates that America's immigration laws are not being effectively enforced. A contributing factor to this lack of enforcement has been deficient resources. Congress responded to this inadequacy by including provisions in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 7
[Footnote] that authorized over a 5-year period an additional 10,000 Border Patrol agents, an increase of 40,000 immigration detention beds, and an additional 4,000 immigration investigators. Another factor that has contributed to the large number of illegal aliens within the United States is a lack of strong enforcement priorities by current and past administrations. 8
[Footnote] In addition, the incoherent organizational structure of immigration enforcement offices within the Department of Homeland Security has played a role in the lack of enforcement. 9
[Footnote] Despite the great strides over the last decade that resulted from the enactment of legislation such as the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, 10
[Footnote] and the REAL ID Act of 2005, 11
[Footnote] significant changes to current immigration law are necessary to restore accountability for those who violate immigration laws, ensure the prevention of future illegal immigration, and to combat the rising prevalence of criminal behavior by illegal aliens. The `Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005' contains measures that address these important concerns.
[Footnote 7: Pub. L. No. 108-458.]
[Footnote 8: Enforcement of `employer sanctions,' while always spotty, declined in the latter years of the Clinton Administration after a 1999 interior enforcement strategy delegated it to the lowest rung of priority. Enforcement has since plummeted still further. The total hours worked by investigators on employer sanctions cases fell from almost 714,000 in 1997 to 135,000 in 2004, a drop of 81 percent. The number of notices of intent to fine employers for violations fell from 1461 in 1992 to 3 in 2004, a drop of 99 percent. The number of arrests of illegal alien employees fell from 17,552 in 1997 to 445 in 2003, a drop of 97 percent. See Lack of Worksite Enforcement and Employer Sanctions: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Immigration, Border Security and Claims of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong. (2005).]
[Footnote 9: In the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Congress created a Bureau of Border Security that was to carry out the five immigration enforcement functions--the Border Patrol, detention and removal, intelligence, investigations, and inspections at ports-of-entry--and not suffer from the INS's mission overload. See sections 441 and 442 of Pub. Law. No. 107-296. When the Department of Homeland Security was created, however, immigration functions were split into border-related functions to be carried out by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protections and interior-related functions to be carried out by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In addition, each of these two agencies was also burdened with carrying out customs law enforcement and other responsibilities. The result has been devastating for immigration enforcement. Most leadership positions, both in Washington and in local offices, were given to legacy Customs Bureau officials, and, not surprisingly, immigration enforcement has been relegated to the lowest rung of priority and has been deprived of requisite resources and organizational unity. Dedicated and experienced immigration enforcement professionals have left in droves. See New `Dual Missions' of the Immigration Enforcement Agencies: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Immigration, Border Security and Claims of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 109th Cong. (2005).]
[Footnote 10: Division C of title III of Pub. L. No. 104-208.]
[Footnote 11: Division B of Pub. L. No. 109-13.] <<< >>>
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That's cause everything is illegal.
this man is a lawyer... he is telling you inside information! Heed this mans words for they are the most true ever spoken on these boards! And I am dead serious!
Your law is choking you!
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
That's cause everything is illegal.
this man is a lawyer... he is telling you inside information! Heed this mans words for they are the most true ever spoken on these boards! And I am dead serious!
Your law is choking you!
Hes not a lawyer. Where is his diploma? Don
quote:Originally posted by kyplumber
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
That's cause everything is illegal.
this man is a lawyer... he is telling you inside information! Heed this mans words for they are the most true ever spoken on these boards! And I am dead serious!
Your law is choking you!
Hes not a lawyer. Where is his diploma? Don
He has all of his records and his clients in an urn..
and his clients in an urn..
I don't think even he would do that. Don
quote:Originally posted by kyplumber
and his clients in an urn..
I don't think even he would do that. Don
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