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What will be the US imprisonment rate for 2010?

What will be the US imprisonment rate for 2010?

Asked by: Super Userkruijs in Politics » United States
Settled on 12/15/2011 22:25 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:9 per 100,000 or less In 2010, the U.S. imprisonment rate dropped to 497 inmates per 100,000 residents, continuing a decline since 2007, when the imprisonment rates peaked at 506 inmates per 100,000 residents. The national imprisonment rate for males (938 per 100,000 male U.S. residents) was about 14 times the imprisonment rate for females (67 per 100,000 female U.S. residents).

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/press/p10cpus10pr.cfm

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501 per 100,000 or more
500 per 100,000
499 per 100,000 or less

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The imprisonment rate is defined as the number of prisoners sentenced to more than 1 year under state or federal jurisdiction per 100,000 U.S. residents whereas the incarceration rate is the total number of inmates held in custody of state or federal prisons or local jails per 100,000 U.S. residents.
At yearend 2009, the imprisonment rate—the number of sentenced prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents—declined for the second straight year, falling to 502 per 100,000 from a peak of 506 per 100,000 in 2007.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/incrttab.cfm
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/p09.pdf

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   Super UserJosef Biesenberger

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/p10.pdf

   Super Userkruijs

Justices Order California to Shed 30,000 Prisoners
Conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24scotus.html

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