by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 29, 2021 | News
There were 1,215,821 people in U.S. state and federal prisons at the end of 2020 and 549,100 in U.S. jails at mid-year 2020, according to two Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports published in early December. This is a 15% (214,400-person) and a 25%...
by Monty Self | Apr 23, 2020 | Opinion
Health departments are releasing the demographic data that has been collected regarding COVID-19 cases. While the numbers are preliminary, it appears that African Americans are suffering a disproportionate amount of deaths compared to other racial groups. Recent data...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 14, 2019 | News
The U.S. prisons population declined again in 2017, continuing a multiyear trend, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published in late April. At the end of that year, the U.S. prison population was nearly 1.5 million people (at the state and...
by Sarah Griffith | Jul 18, 2000 | News
Black men and women are imprisoned for drug offenses twice as often as white drug users, though there are five times more white users than black users, according to a recent report. Of drug offenders sent to prison in 1996, 62.7 percent were African-American and 36.7...
