You’ve read a fantastic book from Amazon and want to share it with someone you love. However, that someone is currently in prison. Can you order another copy of that remarkable book and have Amazon send it to someone in jail?
The reach of human rights does not end at the prison gates. After all, the primary goal of a healthy corrections system is the rehabilitation and successful reintegration of inmates into society.
One-year probation is a type of community supervision that lasts for one year. Probation is usually given to first-time offenders whom the courts deem low-risk and nonviolent.
In their 2021 Data Matters report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported approximately 11.7 million incarcerated individuals worldwide at the end of 2019.
They say it takes two to tango and that two heads are better than one. However, two or more people planning a crime can lead to a felony conspiracy charge and possible jail time.
The United States (U.S.) government has incarcerated more than two million people and placed them in over 7,000 correctional facilities nationwide.
Over two million prisoners spend their day-to-day lives in prison across the United States. This large number of people live under the ever-watchful gaze of prison security to ensure inmates follow the rules.
Causing the death of another person is always severe. However, not all cases of killing are classified as murder.
An estimated 10,000 prisoners are processed for prison or jail release every week. However, seeing inmates get out of prison results from a long, tedious process of corrections and rehabilitation.
It may be a surprise, but over 13 million people yearly get a misdemeanor charge for various crimes.
By the end of 2021, approximately 3,745,000 adults in the U.S. were under community supervision (parole or probation).
The United States’ “tough on crime” policy for the past decades has left the country with two problems: prison overcrowding and the high cost of mass incarceration.
In 1996, United States legislators enacted Megan’s Law, a federal statute mandating all states to establish a notification system that allows public access to information about local sex offenders in the community.
Over 800,000 people are currently serving parole in the United States. To give this number some perspective, the U.S. has more parolees than people living in North Dakota.
Level 4 prisons are high-security facilities that detain people considered dangerous to society. It’s estimated that more than 19,700 prisoners are housed inside these correctional institutions.
In June 2021, the United States (U.S.) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported that local or county jails housed approximately 636,300 inmates.
Did you know that arson is the leading cause of fires in the United States? Statistics show that 33,395 arson cases happened in 2019, resulting in property damage worth billions of dollars.
In 2021, the United States criminal justice system received more than 943,000 reported cases of aggravated assault.
