West Virginia's FY 2011 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
2011-RU-BX-K089
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2011
$282,214
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...