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Lots of holiday gifts from BJS for data junkies

By Douglas A. Berman

This is the time of year in which the Bureau of Justice Statistics releases a whole bunch of statistics about prisoners and others under state and federal criminal control.  This year I got an e-mail from BJS providing links to a cornucopia of data.  Overwhelmed by all the goodies, I decided I'll just cut-and-paste all the goodies and links from the e-mail: Prisoners in 2007Available online at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p07.htm. Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or statecorrectional authorities on December 31, 2007, collected from theNational Prisoner Statistics series.Probation and Parole in the United States, 2007 - Statistical TablesAvailable online at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ppus07st.htm...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).