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Louisiana Leads the Nation and the World in Lock Up
Prison and Jails: Expensive – Not Keeping Communities Safer
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[14]Counties often make money off the state by selling their beds to house state prisoners, and Louisiana leads the nation in housing its state prison population in local jails. According to the latest prisoners survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 36,745 people under the jurisdiction of the state department of corrections, and of them, the latest figures showed that 16,549 (45%) were held in local jails. The national average of the proportion of state prisoners held in local jails was 5%.
[15] Probation and Parole in the United States (2001) and Total Number of Persons Under Local, State or Federal Correctional Supervision, (2000), Bureau of Justice Statistics. Figures for 2001 are a Bureau of Justice Statistics estimate; International figures are from Walmsley, Roy. World Prisoner Population List, 2004. (2005) London, UK: International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College, London.
[16]State Expenditure Report, 2003 (2004). Washington, DC: National Association of State Budget Officers.
[17]Ziedenberg,
Jason and Schiraldi, Vincent. Cellblocks or Classrooms: The Funding of
Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African American Men
(2002). Washington, DC: The Justice Policy Institute.
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Change in Full-Time equivalent employment from Western, Bruce and
Guetzkow, Josh. (August 2002) Punitive Policy and Neoliberalism in the
U.S. Labor Market. Presented at annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University.
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Human Rights Watch (2002), Table 1, available at
www.hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/race [20]. Note: Figures calculated on the
basis of U.S. Census Bureau data from Census 2000 on state residents
and incarcerated populations.
[21]
Harrison, Paige. Sentenced female prisoners under State or Federal
jurisdiction. (2000). Beck, Allen and Harrison, Paige. Prisoners in
2003. (November, 2004). Washington, DC: Office of Justice Programs,
Bureau of Justice Statistics.
[22]Spelling, William (2000). The Limited Importance of Prison Expansion. In The American Crime Drop , ed. Blumstein, Alfred and Wallman, Joel. Boston: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Jenni and Mauer, Marc. Diminishing Returns: Crime and Incarceration in
the 1990s. (2000) Washington, DC: The Sentencing Project.
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