Since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population. Some of the growth is attributable to changes in federal criminal justice policy during the previous three decades. An issue before Congress is whether policymakers consider the rate of growth in the federal prison population sustainable, and if not, what changes could be made to federal criminal justice policy to reduce the prison population while maintaining public safety. This report explores the issues related to the growing federal prison population
A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Dep...
This report reviews the impact of these factors on population growth, and summarizes other major con...
According to the National Council and Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), prison populations will increase...
The federal prison population has been growing dramatically; its current population exceeds 218,000,...
Although there is general consensus that growth in the prison population should be reversed, there i...
After the 1960s, the federal government\u27s role in crime control grew substantially as barriers to...
American incarceration numbers increased fivefold between 1973 and 1997. Changes in penal policies a...
The federal prison population has escalated from under 25,000 inmates in 1980 to over 219,000 today....
Analyzes trends in state and federal prison population, state variations, policies behind the trends...
In the final decades of the 20th century, a confluence of factors precipitated a policy change in th...
This fact sheet from The Pew Charitable Trusts highlights data on the growth of the federal prison s...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
Prior macro-level studies examining the impact of prison population growth on crime rates have produ...
259 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.This thesis deals with the fa...
In the past 10 years, the number of prisoners increased rapidly from 13,000 to 20,500 and the insuff...
A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Dep...
This report reviews the impact of these factors on population growth, and summarizes other major con...
According to the National Council and Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), prison populations will increase...
The federal prison population has been growing dramatically; its current population exceeds 218,000,...
Although there is general consensus that growth in the prison population should be reversed, there i...
After the 1960s, the federal government\u27s role in crime control grew substantially as barriers to...
American incarceration numbers increased fivefold between 1973 and 1997. Changes in penal policies a...
The federal prison population has escalated from under 25,000 inmates in 1980 to over 219,000 today....
Analyzes trends in state and federal prison population, state variations, policies behind the trends...
In the final decades of the 20th century, a confluence of factors precipitated a policy change in th...
This fact sheet from The Pew Charitable Trusts highlights data on the growth of the federal prison s...
Since the United States began using incarceration as its cornerstone of punishment for those who tra...
Prior macro-level studies examining the impact of prison population growth on crime rates have produ...
259 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.This thesis deals with the fa...
In the past 10 years, the number of prisoners increased rapidly from 13,000 to 20,500 and the insuff...
A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Dep...
This report reviews the impact of these factors on population growth, and summarizes other major con...
According to the National Council and Crime and Delinquency (NCCD), prison populations will increase...