The risk of incarceration for Black men in the United States was cut nearly in half between 1999 and 2019, according to a new study that assesses the impact of falling rates of imprisonment in each of the 50 states.
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2023
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As efforts to reverse mass incarceration rise, so does the need to supervise more individuals in the community. Faced with heightened demand, corrections agencies increasingly use risk assessment to allocate supervision and ...
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Oct 13, 2021
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The U.S. government spent an estimated $5.4 billion last year at the state and federal level to incarcerate adults convicted of sex crimes against children under age 18, according to a new study led by a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
Social Sciences
Mar 25, 2022
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A Houston-area official said Monday it will take 60 days to ensure a city drinking water system is purged of a deadly, microscopic parasite that doctors believed killed a boy and that led to warnings for others not to drink ...
Environment
Sep 29, 2020
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The United States leads the world in its use of solitary confinement, locking away in isolation more of its population than any other country.
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2022
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To deal with unsafe health conditions in prisons and jails during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials are granting early parole releases to low-risk prisoners, or transferring them to home confinement.
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2020
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The incarceration rate in the United States fell in 2021 to its lowest levels since 1995—but the U.S. continues to imprison a higher percentage of its population than almost every other country.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2023
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The United States has the largest number of people incarcerated in the world—about 25% of all people imprisoned worldwide are in American prisons and jails.
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2022
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Nearly one-third of offenders who violated institutional rules and regulations across state prisons received a sanction of disciplinary segregation, which prison officials based on legal and extralegal factors, according ...
Social Sciences
Jun 27, 2017
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A boil-water notice was lifted Tuesday from the drinking-water system of a Houston-area city where water tainted with a deadly, microscopic parasite was blamed for the death of a 6-year-old boy.
Environment
Oct 7, 2020
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