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A Matter of Fact
Between 1984 and 1994, the number of non U.S. citizens serving time in a federal prison increased an average of 15 percent annually, from 4,088 to 18,929. The overall federal prison population, by contrast, increased an average of 10 percent annually, from 31,105 to 87,437. Fifty-five percent of the non-citizens prosecuted in federal court in 1994 were in the U.S. legally.
According to INS estimates, 29,207 "criminal aliens" were deported from the U.S. in the first 10 months of fiscal year 1996, more than in all of 1995. California accounted for 10,784 such deportations. Arizona was second with 5,675 and Texas third with 4,539. All other states combined accounted for the remaining 8,209 "criminal aliens" deported.
The INS deported 67,000 illegal immigrants during 1996, a 34 percent increase over 1995. The figure was 43,500 in 1992, the last year of the Bush administration.
Nearly 40 percent of African-American men in their twenties in California are imprisoned, on parole, or on probation, a rate eight times higher than whites, according to a 1996 study written by the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
The California Department of Corrections operates 32 prisons and employs approximately 42,000 persons.
A study of 1993 federal drug convictions showed that out of the 14,800 federal prisoners serving time for crack cocaine, 88.3 percent were black, 7.1 percent Latino, and 4.1 percent white.
African-Americans make up 7 percent of California's population, 20 percent of arrests, and 43 percent of those convicted for third strikes.
U.S. labor secretary Robert B. Reich wrote in a 1983 academic journal that a one percent increase in unemployment translated into "920 more suicides; 650 more homicides; 500 more deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, heart, and kidney disease; 4,000 more admissions to state mental hospitals, and 3,300 more people sent to prison."
According to Harper's Index (1997) the average percentage increase in the national homicide rate is 5.6 percent per every one percent increase in the unemployment rate.
According to mid-1996 Bureau of Justice Statistics figures, the imprisonment rate in the U.S. is 615 per 100,000 population (about one in every 163 U.S. residents) which is nearly double the 313 per 1000,000 just ten years earlier.
More money was spent building new prisons than universities in 1995, for the first time ever, according to a study released by the Justice Policy Institute. Construction funds for higher education dropped $954 million to $2.5 billion, while prison construction outlays increased $926 million to $2.6 billion in 1995, the most recent year for which data is available.
According to a Dept. of Justice study, one out of 20 U.S. residents born today will spend time behind bars (if current trends hold). The rate for black males is one in four, for Hispanic males it is one in six, and for white males it is one in twenty-five.
According to INS estimates, 29,207 "criminal aliens" were deported from the U.S. in the first 10 months of fiscal year 1996, more than in all of 1995. California accounted for 10,784 such deportations. Arizona was second with 5,675 and Texas third with 4,539. All other states combined accounted for the remaining 8,209 "criminal aliens" deported.
The INS deported 67,000 illegal immigrants during 1996, a 34 percent increase over 1995. The figure was 43,500 in 1992, the last year of the Bush administration.
Nearly 40 percent of African-American men in their twenties in California are imprisoned, on parole, or on probation, a rate eight times higher than whites, according to a 1996 study written by the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
The California Department of Corrections operates 32 prisons and employs approximately 42,000 persons.
A study of 1993 federal drug convictions showed that out of the 14,800 federal prisoners serving time for crack cocaine, 88.3 percent were black, 7.1 percent Latino, and 4.1 percent white.
African-Americans make up 7 percent of California's population, 20 percent of arrests, and 43 percent of those convicted for third strikes.
U.S. labor secretary Robert B. Reich wrote in a 1983 academic journal that a one percent increase in unemployment translated into "920 more suicides; 650 more homicides; 500 more deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, heart, and kidney disease; 4,000 more admissions to state mental hospitals, and 3,300 more people sent to prison."
According to Harper's Index (1997) the average percentage increase in the national homicide rate is 5.6 percent per every one percent increase in the unemployment rate.
According to mid-1996 Bureau of Justice Statistics figures, the imprisonment rate in the U.S. is 615 per 100,000 population (about one in every 163 U.S. residents) which is nearly double the 313 per 1000,000 just ten years earlier.
More money was spent building new prisons than universities in 1995, for the first time ever, according to a study released by the Justice Policy Institute. Construction funds for higher education dropped $954 million to $2.5 billion, while prison construction outlays increased $926 million to $2.6 billion in 1995, the most recent year for which data is available.
According to a Dept. of Justice study, one out of 20 U.S. residents born today will spend time behind bars (if current trends hold). The rate for black males is one in four, for Hispanic males it is one in six, and for white males it is one in twenty-five.
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