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Report details Arizona's prison population and prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report details Arizona's prison populace March 31, 2010 10:04 PM BY JAMES GILBERT - SUN STAFF WRITER http://www.yumasun.com/news/arizona-57396-report-profile.html According to a newly released report from the Arizona Prosecuting Attorney's Advisory Council, more than 94 percent of Arizona prison inmates are either violent or repeat felony offenders, or both. Yuma County Attorney Jon R. Smith called the 90-page report, "Prisoners in Arizona: A Profile of the Inmate Population," the most in-depth statistical profile of Arizona's inmate population ever published. "The information presented is not just of a random study of less than those currently serving time in Arizona prisons, but rather addresses all 40,431 inmates that were in custody as of Sept...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).