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Incarceration Rates

Mike

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Georgia tops all states with one in 13 adults in the justice system. The other leading states are Idaho, where one in 18 are in corrections and Texas, where the rate is one in 22. In the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., nearly 5 percent of adults are in the city's penal system.

This was the first criminal justice study that took into account those on probation and parole as well as federal convicts, Pew Research Center said.

The numbers are also concentrated among groups, with a little more than 9 percent of black adults in prisons or jails or on probation or parole, as opposed to some 4 percent of Hispanics and 2 percent of whites.
 
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Mike said:
Georgia tops all states with one in 13 adults in the justice system. The other leading states are Idaho, where one in 18 are in corrections and Texas, where the rate is one in 22. In the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., nearly 5 percent of adults are in the city's penal system.

This was the first criminal justice study that took into account those on probation and parole as well as federal convicts, Pew Research Center said.

The numbers are also concentrated among groups, with a little more than 9 percent of black adults in prisons or jails or on probation or parole, as opposed to some 4 percent of Hispanics and 2 percent of whites.

I wonder how many blacks are in Idaho..... :???:

That was your intent wasn't it Grand Dragon :???:
 

alice

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Oldtimer said:
Mike said:
Georgia tops all states with one in 13 adults in the justice system. The other leading states are Idaho, where one in 18 are in corrections and Texas, where the rate is one in 22. In the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., nearly 5 percent of adults are in the city's penal system.

This was the first criminal justice study that took into account those on probation and parole as well as federal convicts, Pew Research Center said.

The numbers are also concentrated among groups, with a little more than 9 percent of black adults in prisons or jails or on probation or parole, as opposed to some 4 percent of Hispanics and 2 percent of whites.

I wonder how many blacks are in Idaho..... :???:

That was your intent wasn't it Grand Dragon :???:

Of course it was...Mike has absolutely no concept of poverty ridden projects. He just likes to take food to the "darkies" and rush children to the hospital to feel like a hero.

Again, when anyone sees a child in distress, call an ambulance first and then law enforcement.

Question, Mike? How were you all able to get treatment for the children you took to the hospital without parental consent, an EMT to verify the seriousness of the children's condition, and law enforcement to ok the treatment? W/O any of this, what you did equals kidnapping. You good old boys need to think every now and then. In the 30 to 40 minutes that you say it would have taken for an ambulance to get there, you took that 30 or 40 minutes into your own hands. Were any of you paramedical people. What if a child had seized, choked, or God forbid died while you were transporting? At least the 30 or 40 minutes back to town would have been handled by a paraprofessional in contact with the hospital.

Alice
 

hypocritexposer

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Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story! Looks like the war on Poverty is going pretty well.

Alice wrote
Of course it was...Mike has absolutely no concept of poverty ridden projects

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various gov­ernment reports:

* Forty-three percent of all poor households actu­ally own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.

* Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

* Only 6 percent of poor households are over­crowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

* The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)

* Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.

* Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.

* Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.

* Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.


Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrig­erator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry and he had suf­ficient funds in the past year to meet his family's essential needs. While this individual's life is not opulent, it is equally far from the popular images of dire poverty conveyed by the press, liberal activists, and politicians.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/welfare/bg2064.cfm
 

alice

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hypocritexposer said:
Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story! Looks like the war on Poverty is going pretty well.

Alice wrote
Of course it was...Mike has absolutely no concept of poverty ridden projects

The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various gov­ernment reports:

* Forty-three percent of all poor households actu­ally own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.

* Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

* Only 6 percent of poor households are over­crowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

* The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)

* Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.

* Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.

* Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.

* Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.


Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrig­erator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry and he had suf­ficient funds in the past year to meet his family's essential needs. While this individual's life is not opulent, it is equally far from the popular images of dire poverty conveyed by the press, liberal activists, and politicians.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/welfare/bg2064.cfm

Let me tell ya' somthin', bubba. I didn't major in CJ for nothin'...you can take all of your cut and paste, put it in a box, shake it up, and pour it out! Still amounts to cereal.

Alice
 

hypocritexposer

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Do you know more than the author?


Robert Rector is a leading national authority on poverty, the U.S.welfare system and immigration and is a Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow.

Dubbed the "intellectual godfather" of welfare reform by National Review Editor Rich Lowry, Rector concentrates on a range of issues relating to welfare reform, family breakdown and America's various social ills.

Rector played a major role in crafting the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation, which, for the first time, required recipients to work or get job training for their benefits. Since its passage, though, Rector has continued conducted extensive research on the economic costs of welfare and its role in undermining families.

In 2006, for example, when the original welfare reform law was up for renewal, Rector huddled with key Senate and House staffers to strengthen the law's work requirements such as refusing to let states count bed rest as "work." And Rector pushed for a new provision: the Healthy Marriage Initiative. This aims to help keep welfare families intact – a critical factor in reducing poverty and the resulting government dependency as getting a job.

http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/Robertrector.cfm
 

hypocritexposer

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Rector's work on the 1996 welfare reforms earned him the Dr. W. Glenn and Rita Ricardo Campbell Award, given to the Heritage employee for "outstanding contributions to the analysis and promotion of a Free Society." He is the author of America's Failed $5.4 Trillion War on Poverty, a comprehensive examination of U.S. welfare programs, and co-editor of Steering the Elephant: How Washington Works.

Still discounting his work Alice?
 

alice

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Alice got up to let the dogs out and is waiting for them to come in. Therefore, I have no intention of reading your cut and paste and every intention of going back to bed once I hear the scratching of little claws on the door. G'nite

Alice
 

MsSage

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I wonder how many blacks are in Idaho.....
Judging by the number of inmates from Idaho in Texas Prisons I would say more than you would guess.
I am sure you will say they were framed, its bush's fault :roll:




Let me tell ya' somthin', bubba. I didn't major in CJ for nothin'
AWWWWWWW I UNDERSTAND now yeap :roll:
 
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MsSage said:
I wonder how many blacks are in Idaho.....
Judging by the number of inmates from Idaho in Texas Prisons I would say more than you would guess.
I am sure you will say they were framed, its bush's fault :roll:

They must of all went to Texas- because they don't live in Idaho.....

US Census Idaho State & County QuickFacts

White persons, percent, 2007 94.8% National Average 80.0%
Black persons, percent, 2007 0.9% National Average 12.8%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/16000.html
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
MsSage said:
I wonder how many blacks are in Idaho.....
Judging by the number of inmates from Idaho in Texas Prisons I would say more than you would guess.
I am sure you will say they were framed, its bush's fault :roll:

They must of all went to Texas- because they don't live in Idaho.....

US Census Idaho State & County QuickFacts

White persons, percent, 2007 94.8% National Average 80.0%
Black persons, percent, 2007 0.9% National Average 12.8%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/16000.html

From Idaho DOC:
African-Americans make up about half of a percent of the population of Idaho, yet make up about 2% of Idaho's prison population (they are four times over-represented) and Latina/os make up about 8% of Idaho's population and make up about 15.4% of the prison population (are almost two-times over-represented). Native Americans make up about 1.5% of Idaho's population but 4% of the prison population (two-times over-represented). Figures based on IDOC Quick Facts, January 2007).
 

Mike

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Alice, we do things our way, and you do things your way.

Please don't bring your liberal azz over here and tell us how to treat our neighbors and we'll all be better off.
 

Mike

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Louisiana's incarceration rate is No. 1 in nation
Times Picayune | March 02, 2009 | Doug Simpson


BATON ROUGE -- One out of every 55 Louisiana residents is behind bars, a higher incarceration rate than any other state, according to research released today by a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group.


One in 26 Louisiana adults is under correctional control, if probation and parole are included, the group found.


The Pew Center for the States study of 2007 U.S. Census data found that Louisiana's incarceration rate spiked by 272 percent since 1982. That rate of increase is far from the nation's highest of 357 percent in North Dakota, and not far from Mississippi's 256 percent increase. Neighbor states Texas and Arkansas have seen increases around 200 percent.


The Pew group argued that, particularly during a recession, rising costs of incarceration should push states to reduce prison spending by moving more nonviolent inmates out of prisons and into community-based parole and probation systems. One researcher pointed to Texas, where he said a recent shift in the politics of corrections has led to policy changes and a leveling off of that state's incarceration rate.


"I think what we're seeing is that the politics of this issue are changing," said Adam Gelb, director of Pew's public safety performance project. "The old question used to be, 'How can we demonstrate we're tough on crime?' More and more, policy-makers from both sides of the aisle are asking a better question, which is: 'How do we get taxpayers a better return on their dollars?"

Gelb said Texas had saved $500 million by expanding parole and probation, while stopping the construction of new prisons.


Louisiana's prison's chief said he's thinking along the same lines -- but is unable to back a big shift toward parole and probation, partly because those parts of his agency are already overburdened with work.

"Some states are paroling people out, but we're not


(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
 

TexasBred

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BOISE - Hispanics remain the largest minority group in Idaho, growing by more than 43 percent from 2000 to 2007, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

The census figures released Wednesday showed 147,426 people in Idaho claimed Hispanic heritage in 2007, compared to 102,901 in 2000.

The Census Bureau estimates Hispanics were nearly 10 percent of the state's population of 1.5 million in 2007, up from nearly 8 percent of a total population pegged at 1.3 million in 2000.

The Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs thinks that number might be understated. The state agency estimates at least 20,000 people of Hispanic heritage were not counted in the 2000 census, Executive Director Margie Gonzalez said.

The agency is working with the Census Bureau's regional office in Seattle to prepare for the next census in 2010. Ensuring a full count of Idaho minorities is critical to obtaining funding for programs that serve Hispanic and other minority populations, Gonzalez said.

"For those of us trying to bring in grants, trying to bring in money," she said, "it becomes a really big problem when you don't have the data."

Hispanics are now more than 15 percent of the U.S. population, or 45.5 million of the estimated 301 million people living in the United States, according to the Census Bureau.

While Hispanics are by far the largest minority group in Idaho, they are not the fastest growing.

The number of blacks living in Idaho has more than doubled since 2000, growing by 122 percent from 5,961 in 2000 to 13,239 in 2007.

Asians increased by 40 percent, from 17,541 to 12,522; Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders by 31 percent, from 1,485 in 2000 to 1,953; and American Indians and Alaska Natives by grew 17 percent, from 18,522 to 21,648.
 

backhoeboogie

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Oldtimer said:
MsSage said:
I wonder how many blacks are in Idaho.....
Judging by the number of inmates from Idaho in Texas Prisons I would say more than you would guess.
I am sure you will say they were framed, its bush's fault :roll:

They must of all went to Texas- because they don't live in Idaho.....

US Census Idaho State & County QuickFacts

White persons, percent, 2007 94.8% National Average 80.0%
Black persons, percent, 2007 0.9% National Average 12.8%

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/16000.html

I am pretty sure we still lead the nation in putting them to death too OT.
 
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