Medical Problems of Inmates, 1997
Date Published
January 2001
Publication Type
Publication
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THE NATION'S PRISON POPULATION GREW ALMOST 9 PERCENT LAST YEAR ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1995 202/307-0784 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The nation's state and federal prisons had to find room for 83,294 more inmates last year--the second largest annual increase in history and just 1,470 fewer than the 84,764 increase recorded in 1989. The total...
Survey of Inmate Characteristics ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1990 BJS 202-307-0784 An estimated 16 percent of prison inmates were armed with a gun when they committed the offense for which they were serving time, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. About half of the armed inmates (or about 8 percent of all prisoners) said they had fired...
Comparing Federal and State Prisoners ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1994 202-307-0784 COMPARING FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Most federal prisoners are drug offenders, but almost half of state prisoners are serving time for violent crimes. Offenders in federal prisons are almost three times as likely as state prisoners to be incarcerated for a drug offense, according...
Record Number of Prisoners Reached Again Last Year U.S. Department of Justice ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EST BJS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1994 202-307-0784 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of state and federal prisoners at the end of last year reached a new record number--948,881 inmates, an almost two-fold increase since 1980, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. In 1980...
THE NATION'S JAILS HOLD RECORD 490,442 INMATES U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1995 202-307-0784 THE NATION'S JAILS HOLD RECORD 490,442 INMATES WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The nation's local jails held a record 490,442 men and women as of last June 30, the Department of Justice announced today. During the 12 months preceding June 30, 1994, the...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1995 202/307-0784 23 PERCENT OF THOSE ARRESTED FOR WEAPONS OFFENSES ARE YOUNGER THAN 18 YEARS OLD WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost a quarter of those arrested for weapons offenses are minors, the Department of Justice said today. In a study of people arrested for weapons offenses during 1993, 23 percent were...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1996 202/307-0703 PROBATION AND PAROLE POPULATION REACHES ALMOST 3.8 MILLION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There were almost 3.8 million adult men and women on probation or parole at the end of 1995, an increase of about 119,000 during the year, the Department of Justice announced today. The 3.2 percent increase was...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 5 P.M. EDT BJS SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1996 202/633-3047 Almost 1.6 milllion men and women in the Nation's Prisons and Jails WASHINGTON, D.C. -- There were almost 1.6 million men and women in the nation's jails and prisons last year, an increase of 66,843 in state prisons and 5,216 in federal prisons from 1994, the Department of...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1997 202/633-3047 SIXTY PERCENT OF CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS ARE ON PAROLE OR PROBATION Rapes and Sexual Assaults Decline WASHINGTON, D.C. -- According to a report released today by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), on any given day in 1994 almost 60 percent of the 234,000 convicted sex...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1997 202/633-3047 NATION'S JAIL AND PRISON INCARCERATION RATE ALMOST DOUBLED DURING LAST DECADE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The incarceration rate in the nation's federal and state prisons and local jails almost doubled during the last decade, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. However, this growth recently slowed...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1997 202/633-3047 PRISON CONSTRUCTION KEEPING PACE WITH POPULATION GROWTH WASHINGTON, D.C. -- State and federal officials built 213 new prisons--168 state and 45 federal facilities--with more than 280,000 beds between 1990 and 1995 to keep pace with the growing prison population, the Justice Department announced today. As of mid-year 1995...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1998 202/307-0784 NATION'S PRISONS AND JAILS HOLD MORE THAN 1.7 MILLION Up Almost 100,000 in a Year WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As of last June 30 the nation's prisons and jails held 1,725,842 men and women, an increase of more than 96,100 inmates over the prior year, the Justice Department's Bureau...