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	Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison Statistics
		Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006, 6/07.
		Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001, 08/03.
		Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96, 10/98.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /bjs/prisons.htm (2130 words)

	United States - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The United States of America (U.S.A.) (also referred to as the United States, the U.S. America, or (outside its borders) the States), is a federal republic in North America with a strong democratic tradition.
		The federal and state government is dominated by two political parties, the Republicans (center-right) and the Democrats (center-left), although minor party candidates and independents are occasionally elected especially to local or state office.
		The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified[?] with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
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	United States prison population (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The prison population of the United States is in a constant state of flux, increasing or decreasing based on a number of factors, including the number of arrests, length of prison sentences, parole, legislation to determine what is legal and what is not, and so on.
		In 2000, the state and federal prison population of the United States stood at 1,381,892.
		The three states with the lowest ratio of imprisoned to unimprisoned population are: Minnesota (121 per 100,000), Maine (128/100,000), and North Dakota (120/100,000).
	usapedia.com /u/united-states-prison-population.html (383 words)

	Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001(03/11/02)
		Torture and forced confession are common in the United States, with the number of convicts on the death row that are misjudged or wronged remaining high.
		In 25 states, the youngest age eligible for death sentence is set at 17; and 21 states set that age at 16 or do not impose an age limit at all.
		Although the United States sent a low-level delegation to the conference as a result of prompting and persuasion by the United Nations, it took the lead in opposing discussing slave trade and colonial compensation, expressed opposition to putting Zionism on a par with racism, and walked out of the conference midway.
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	Prisons in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prisons in the United States are operated by the Federal government, as well as by each of the state governments.
		In the United States, prisons are operated at various levels of security, ranging from minimum-security prisons that mainly house non-violent offenders to Supermax facilities that house well-known criminals and terrorists such as Terry Nichols, Zacarias Moussaoui, and Richard Reid.
		Prisoners in minimum-security facilities are generally judged to pose little physical risk to the public, and are mainly non-violent "white collar criminals".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_prison_population (2734 words)

	ipedia.com: Prison Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war.
		Prisons form part of military systems, and are used variously to house prisoners of war, enemy combatants, and those whose freedom is deemed a risk by military authorities.
		The United Kingdom's HM Maze Prison at Long Kesh was used during the internment period in Northern Ireland to imprison suspected paramilitaries.
	www.ipedia.com /prison.html (1108 words)

	The Crime of Prisons
		Boot camps for example, employed in the United States since 1983, have been found to either have no effect on or cause an increase in recidivism rates, but they are still faith-fully employed on the baseless belief that hard labor and military discipline will correct criminal behavior.
		Prisoner allegations abound, but the enforcement mechanisms that might allow the disciplining of abusive guards are strangely lax.
		Ironically, even in prisons the drug problem still exists, only now it is those tasked with guarding the victims of the drug war that are the pushers.
	web.mit.edu /thistle/www/v12/1/prisons.html (1592 words)

	The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prisons are seen as a source of jobs‹in construction, local vendors and prison staff‹as well as a source of tax revenues.
		The proliferation of prisons in the United States is one piece of a puzzle called the globalization of capital.
		Yet, opposing the expansion of the prison industrial complex, and supporting the rights and basic humanity of prisoners, may be the only way we can stave off the consolidation of a police state that represses us all‹where you or a friend or family member may yourself end up behind bars.
	www.prisonactivist.org /crisis/evans-goldberg.html (4020 words)

	United Kingdom prison population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Kingdom has one of the highest rates of incarceration in Western Europe: In 2005 an average of 139 people in every 100,000 were in prison (although this is far short of the 714 per 100,000 in the United States).
		In 1991 the total prison population was 42,000 and in 1992 it was 45,800.
		In February 2003 the prison population stood at 72,144, of which 4,810 were serving life sentences (averaging 13 years), and there were 3,740 female prisoners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_population (1687 words)

	United States travel guide
		Houston is a city that exemplifies Texas and acts as a microcosm of the state.
		The capital of the United States is Washington, DC.
		The most populous cities of the United States are New York, NY (pop.
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	Full text of Human Rights Record of the US in 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The United States has long been in a violent, crime-ridden society with a severe infringement of the people's rights by law enforcement departments and with a lack of guarantee for the life of people, their freedom and personal safety.
		The United States reportedly jailed a number of prisoners regarded as illegal fighters, three of whom were 13 to 15 years of age (see Britain's Guardian newspaper on April 24, 2003).
		And according to the United Nations Children's Fund, of the 27 well-off nations in the world, the United States ranks the first in the number of deaths of its children as a result of violence and negligence (see Reuters dispatch from Geneva on Sept. 18, 2003).
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5799.htm (6462 words)

	A Modest Proposal: The Restoration of Slavery
		The United States may or may not have surpassed Russia as having the largest per capita prison population in the world.
		Although the public naturally would like these "gang-bangers" in prison, it is clear from the evidence of the past that much of their violence is a simple consequence of the illegality of their favored products.
		On the other hand, convicts can be gotten out of the prisons and simultaneously won't be whining about their rights all the time, since they won't have any: They will be dead to the law, except to argue that they were originally innocent.
	www.friesian.com /modest.htm (2239 words)

	Green Left - UNITED STATES: Prison: corporate slavery?
		Its motive is to take a mass prison population of poor people and to make money by: charging rent and fees for being in jail; allowing privately owned prisons; setting up prison corporations to compete with “free” labour; and exploiting prison labour in “factories behind fences”.
		Prison labour is being used to not only undermine free labour but drive companies out of business.
		Ultimately, the outright abolition of prisons, or at least a moratorium on the building of prisons, has to be fought for.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2000/419/419p23.htm (842 words)

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		Background and Reasons for Study: Currently, the prison industry is one of the United States' fastest growing even though, according to a recent FBI report, the crime rate is down overall by 18% since 1980.
		For instance, the United States Congress has refused to adjust the widely differing prosecution and sentencing standards for crack as opposed to powder cocaine, where crack use is more prevalent among inner-city non-whites, and powder cocaine — its equivalent — is preferred by suburban whites.
		Prisoners are sometimes treated as though they are no longer entitled to any of their fundamental human rights.
	www.uua.org /csw/psg01/prison.doc (2317 words)

	United States Prison System—Justice? » Shoutwire.com
		The numbers are from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the United States Sentencing Commission, and an analysis of the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities.
		To simply state that the conviction of an increased number of minorities is a sign of racism is too short sighted, and ridiculous considering the level of intelligence of those who normally contribute to these forums.
		Furthermore, 1 in 10 of all incarcerated inmates are prison raped.
	www.shoutwire.com /comments/8848/United_States_Prison_System_Justice (3534 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| US prison rate soars even higher
		The figures show the prison population increased by an estimated 48,452 people - 2.3% - in the year to 30 June 2004.
		The prison population is swelling fastest in the state of Minnesota - up 13.2% over 12 months.
		The figures showed that 12.6% of fl males in their late 20s are in prison, compared to 3.6% of Hispanics and about 1.7% of whites.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4481261.stm (358 words)

	McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
		As the United States’ prison population has exploded over the past 30 years, a rich, provocative and ever-increasing body of literature has emerged, written either by prisoners or by those who have come in close contact with them.
		Unlike earlier prison writings, contemporary literature moves in directions that are neither uniformly ideological nor uniformly political.
		The three essays in the next section explore gender, a prominent subject of prison literature highlighted by the absolute separation of male and female inmates.
	www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2146-0 (250 words)

	HIV+ Special Report - Prisons: Big Business
		At least 43 states now contract some or all of their medical services, and roughly a quarter of the money spent on correctional health care goes to these private companies, which are eager to provide services and drugs to what they view as a fast-growing, untapped niche in the market: prisoners.
		Many prison HMOs are required by their contracts to achieve and maintain NCCHC accreditation, but the group hasn't updated its position statement on HIV since 1994.
		The private prison industry is booming, despite high-profile escapes, violence, riots, and a government report that found no evidence that private prisons actually save taxpayers money.
	www.aidsinfonyc.org /hivplus/issue6/report/privat.html (2292 words)

	Children in the United States: - Prison Talk
		The International Secretariat of OMCT is greatly concerned by the deplorable state of the juvenile justice system in the United States of America, especially in relation to the imposition of the death penalty as well as life imprisonment without parole and adult proceedings applied to offenders who committed crimes when they were under 18.
		OMCT deems that detention on death row, as well as life imprisonment without possibility of release, amount to torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, which is prohibited by the international instruments ratified by the United States, when applied to particularly vulnerable persons such as children (who are in the critical stages of their development).
		As a consequence, OMCT urges the United States authorities to abolish the death penalty and life imprisonment without parole that is imposed for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age and to abolish laws which allow children to be tried as adult.
	www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=14078 (1946 words)

	The Sentencing Project - Incarceration
		These trends have resulted in prison overcrowding and state governments being overwhelmed by the burden of funding a rapidly expanding penal system, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not the most effective means of achieving public safety.
		The Sentencing Project submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in advance of oral arguments in the case of Kimbrough v.
		Congress is beginning to rethink the mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine offenses as the United States Sentencing Commission, federal judges and numerous civil rights organizations advocate for sentencing reform, according to an article in the American Prospect.
	www.sentencingproject.org /IssueAreaHome.aspx?IssueID=2 (1643 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Prison Conditions in the United States
		Thirty percent of prisoners are estimated to have major depression and 15 percent may have a psychotic disorder.
		The evidence is overwhelming that it is cruel and a violation of basic human dignity to force prisoners with serious mental illness to spend years confined round the clock in claustrophobic cells, with nothing to do, and no one with whom to have a normal conversation.
		Five state prison systems in the United States permit the use of aggressive, unmuzzled dogs to terrify and even attack prisoners in efforts to remove them from their cells, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.
	www.hrw.org /prisons (1398 words)

	Thinking about Crime: Sense and Sensibility in American Penal Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Stated another way, the incarceration rate increased from 110 inmates for every 100,000 persons in the population to about 475 per 100,000.
		The question, of course, is why politicians in the United States enacted policies—sentencing guidelines based solely on the seriousness of the crime and the offender’s prior criminal record, mandatory minimum sentences, three-strikes-and-you’re-out laws, and truth in sentencing policies—eschewed by policymakers in other countries.
		Stated another way, Tonry argues that American crime control policies have been shaped by American “sensibilities”—that is, “time and place-bound ways of thinking that include ideas and express values that are widely shared and little questioned” (p.70)—regarding crime, disorder, criminals, and punishment.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/tonry604.htm (1136 words)

	Petition Text: 30589-CS-NonDis-O\| General Conference 2000
		There are a number of penal systems in the United States which take upon themselves the job of confinement or supervision of persons charged with, or convicted of crimes.
		There is a long history in the United States especially in the South, of exploitation of prison labor through the convict lease system and other arrangements whereby private industry has been allowed to have control over prisoners' lives.
		Many states where private prisons are now operating have no laws regulating their operations (including health, safety, security, legal access for prisoners and disciplinary policies).
	www.gc2000.org /PETS/PET/TEXT/p30589.asp (782 words)

	United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH)
		The United Way has committed funds to support the intensive services for 20 of the "housing first" units and local mental health agencies are partnering to provide Medicaid financed case management services for the remaining "housing first" units.
		United States Interagency Council on Homelessness Regional Coordinator Paul Carlson was among those who attended the Mayor's press conference.
		Central to the work of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is the creation of a National Partnership of every level of government and the private sector to achieve the goal of ending chronic homelessness and reducing all homelessness.
	www.ich.gov (2658 words)

	What Is the Prison Industrial Complex?
		The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a complicated system situated at the intersection of governmental and private interests that uses prisons as a solution to social, political, and economic problems.
		For example, the prison construction boom can be linked to, among other factors, the huge increase in the number of people sentenced to prison terms with the onset of the war on drugs, the repression of radical movements by people of color for self-determination, and the anti-imperialist struggles of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
		Racism continues to be a major factor in the United States, illustrated by policies and programs that sustain white supremacy.
	www.criticalresistance.org /index.php?name=what_is_pic (950 words)

	Prison Search - Free Prison Inmate Locators
		Currently, the United States has the highest population of persons in prisons than any other country in history.
		Search for prison inmates, prisoners, prison records and offender records at state correctional institutions, county jails and prisons with these free prison inmate search engines & prison inmate locators.
		Prison Inmate search is a service provided free of charge to help you locate prisoners, prison inmates and prison records.
	www.ancestorhunt.com /prison_search.htm (353 words)

	Prison Research Index \| Prison Policy Initiative
		Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006 Bureau of Justice Statistics.
		Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005 Bureau of Justice Statistics.
		Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96 Bureau of Justice Statistics.
	www.prisonpolicy.org /research.html (11722 words)

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