Prison Definition–noun | 1. | a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc. | | 3. | any place of confinement or involuntary restraint. | |
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an institution for the confinement of persons who have been remanded (held) in custody by a judicial authority or who have been deprived of their liberty following conviction for a crime. A person ...
Developments in the States, 1997
The growth rates of both prison construction and inmate populations slowed during 1997. Penal construction expenditures rose 4.8% during the year, well under the average increase for the 1990s.Developments in the States, 1998
Even while the nation's crime rate was in a sustained decline, both prison-construction expenditures and inmate populations continued to rise. State expenditures for penal buildings, however, rose ...
State and Local Affairs
Accelerated state prison construction continued to open new beds. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the number of state prisoners surged by 9.1% during the year to reach 1,004,608 at ...
State and Local Affairs
Total state appropriations for corrections grew 9.7% in fiscal year 1994, the biggest percentage increase in any spending category. In the decade from 1982, state corrections budgets went from $6 ...
State and Local Affairs
States boosted corrections spending during 1996 by 6.8%, the fastest-growing category of state expenditures. The increase was made necessary by tougher anticrime laws, including "truth-in-sentencing" ...
State and Local Affairs
Debate over the politics of imprisonment intensified as evidence mounted that the get-tough era of minimum mandatory and harsher sentences plus more prison construction was simply too costly and did ...
Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement
In 2001 the prison population throughout the world continued to exceed the eight-million mark. Accounting for a quarter of this total, the U.S. held more of its inhabitants in prison (702 per 100,000 ...
Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement
Hardening political and public attitudes on crime and punishment continued to be reflected by the rising numbers of untried and sentenced prisoners in many parts of the world in 1998. In this respect ...
Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement
The global prison population in 2002 exceeded 8.75 million, with approximately half of these prisoners held in Russia, China, and the U.S. Prison populations rose in 69% of the world's countries, but ...
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