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Citizens twice as likely to land in NJ prisons as legal, illegal immigrants

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Citizens twice as likely to land in NJ prisons as legal, illegal immigrants by Brian Donohue/The Star-Ledger Saturday April 12, 2008, 9:33 PM U.S. citizens are twice as likely to land in New Jersey's prisons as legal and illegal immigrants, according to new data that counter some of the most widely perceived notions about the link between immigration and crime. Non-U.S. citizens make up 10 percent of the state's overall population, but just 5 percent of the 22,623 inmates in prison as of July 2007, according to an analysis of New Jersey Department of Corrections and U.S. Census data by The Star-Ledger. As part of the federal government's attempt to fix an immigration system that has allowed deportable criminals to go back on the streets, federal agents started scouring the inmate rolls of New Jersey's state prisons last year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 13, 2008 (boomark / email).