The one-percent decline in the number of adults supervised in the community on probation or parole between year-end 2013 and 2014 marked the seventh consecutive…
View More 1 in 52 adults on parole or probation. 4.7 million supervisedMonth: November 2015
44 Million Annually Stoped by Police-1.6% Experienced Force-Blacks Three Times More Likely to Experience Force
In a study released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), an annual average of 44 million U.S. residents age 16 or older had one…
View More 44 Million Annually Stoped by Police-1.6% Experienced Force-Blacks Three Times More Likely to Experience ForceBlack men received roughly 5% to 10% longer prison sentences than white men
During an 8-year period between 2005 and 2012, black men received roughly 5% to 10% longer prison sentences than white men for similar crimes, after accounting…
View More Black men received roughly 5% to 10% longer prison sentences than white men6,000 federal inmates released– states affected
The US Sentencing Commission modified its guidelines affecting 46,000 federal inmates with drug distribution charges to be released (after judicial review) approximately two years early…
View More 6,000 federal inmates released– states affected