Bureau of Justice Statistics releases Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected under the First Step Act, 2020
The US Justice Department s Bureau ofJustice Statistics today released this interesting new data report titled Federal Prisoner Statistics Collected under the First Step Act, 2020. Despite the year in its title, the report provides data on the federal prison population at the end of 2019 (so before any COVID-era shocks). Here is how this 19-page report gets started and a few of its key findings :
The First Step Act of 2018 (FSA) requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), through its National Prisoner Statistics program, to collect data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on a number of topics and to report these data annually. BJS is required to report on selected characteristics of prisoners, including marital, veteran, citizenship, and English-speaking status; educational levels; medical conditions; and participation in treatment programs. Also, BJS is re
Tempe police responded to a 911 call on Jan. 15, 2019, about a suspected burglary in an alley. Officer Joseph Jaen arrived to find Antonio Arce, sitting in a truck with a handgun.
Jaen called to Arce, 14, who turned and ran. âLet me see your hands!â Jaen yelled, but Arce continued running, and Jaen shot and killed him.
In body camera footage taken minutes after the shots, Jaen can be heard saying âItâs a (expletive deleted) toy gun.â It was, indeed, an airsoft replica of a Colt 1911 pistol, with its orange tip still intact.
âThatâs supposed to alert the public, as well as the police, to the fact that this is not a real gun,â said Daniel Ortega Jr., a lawyer for Arceâs family. Airsoft guns use springs or compressed air to fire nonlethal plastic projectiles.
Protect female inmates across U.S., as well as N.J. prison | Letters
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
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Over the past two weeks, the Star-Ledger has printed numerous stories detailing the abuse of female inmates by guards at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. As disturbing new information comes to light, we must acknowledge that this cruelty toward female inmates is not an isolated incident, but part of a larger pattern of abuse that occurs in American prisons every day.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that between 2011 and 2012, about 3.2% of female inmates in jails and prisons reported being sexually assaulted, mostly by male guards. However, many experts assert that this number is probably higher, since many inmates choose not to report their abuse for fear of retaliation. Either way, even the most conservative figures indicate that women in prisons and jails are about 30 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than women who are not incarcerated.
50 Totally Random Facts About the U.S.
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/13/21 at 11:00 AM EST
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The United States is a geographically vast, consumer-driven country with a mixed economy that allows for highly diverse industries, manufacturing, skill sets, tourism, cuisine, and commerce and a wide-reaching culture, to boot.
This country holds many things, from trees and national parks to suburban sprawl and crime. This is the land of plenty (128.45 million households in 2020), and of the few (just 321 drive-in movie theaters nationwide). In its short legacy, the country has also accrued a number of failed experiments and abandoned endeavors, including more than 3,800 ghost towns, in excess of 300 demolished or abandoned amusement parks, and a whopping 450,000 brownfield sites that are home to hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. The U.S. accounts for a little over 4 percent of the global population yet contains 20 percent of the world s p
Accepting Crime, Abolishing Punishment
Liberals are falling into a political trap of their own devising, and they’re going to reverse decades of safety along the way
American liberalism is in a strong position to dominate cultural and political life in the United States for the near future, with Joe Biden in the White House and the Democratic Party in control of both houses of Congress. The cultural and media elites are, for now, united in their conviction that they have saved democracy and that the future is theirs. And yet, a serious challenge to this new liberal ascendancy could be coming, one similar in kind to the circumstances that knocked liberalism back on its heels in the 1960s its inability to address or mitigate an increase in crime, particularly violent crime, and arrest the decline of civic order. In their eagerness to remake the criminal-justice system, defund police, and abolish prisons, today’s liberal leaders and activists appear to have forgotten the lessons