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Prisoners at Yearend 2009 - Advance Counts

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010 Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241
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NUMBER OF STATE PRISONERS DECLINED BY ALMOST 3,000 DURING 2009; FEDERAL PRISON POPULATION INCREASED BY 6,800

WASHINGTON – During 2009, the number of prisoners under jurisdiction of state correctional authorities decreased by 2,941 inmates (down 0.2 percent), the Bureau of...

Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV)

The Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV) is part of BJS's National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which gathers mandated data on the incidence and prevalence of sexual victimization in adult correctional and juvenile justice facilities, under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79). This is an administrative data collection based on allegations of sexual victimization by other inmates/youth or staff that are reported...