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A Cycle of Incarceration

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USA Today reports, "For many of USA's inmates, crime runs in the family," by Kevin Johnson.Nearly half of the 2 million inmates in state prisons across the USA ? 48% ? say they have relatives who also have been incarcerated, according to a Justice Department report in 2004, the most recent comprehensive survey of state prison populations. The portion of those reporting the detention of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, spouses and children has kept pace with the national prison population as it has increased during the past decade. In 1997, 48% of state prisoners also reported that family members had been to prison, according to a Justice Department analysis for USA TODAY based on previous inmate surveys. Social scientists and law enforcement authorities say the influence of family members may be one of the most important and largely unaddressed factors in determining whether people adopt lives of crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).