Thursday, June 30, 2011

Felony Statistics

2006 Total employees USA Justice System 2,427,452 This is Judges, police, Corrections Officers only.


2007, federal, state, and local governments spent an estimated $228 billion police protection, corrections, and judicial and legal services.



In 2006 there were 1,132,290 felony convictions 69% were incarcerated, 31% not incarcerated, no current data.

Most (94%) felony offenders sentenced in 2006 pleaded guilty.

Are you also aware of the cost of incarceration - $35,000 to 50,000 per year per prisoner.

In 2006 an estimated 69% persons convicted felony in state courts were sentenced period of confinement 41% to state prison 28% local jails.

Twenty-two percent of the children of state inmates and 16 percent of the children of federal inmates were age 4 or younger.

1997 released from prison jail accounted nearly 1/4 people living with AIDS almost 1/3 those hepatitis C more than 1/3 those tuberculosis.

More than 10 percent of those entering prisons and jails are homeless in the months before their incarceration.http://t.co/bD5dRzW 

Over 70 percent of prisoners with serious mental illnesses also have a substance use disorder.http://t.co/bD5dRzW 

More than 5 million individuals were on probation or parole at the end of 2009.http://t.co/bD5dRzW

During 2009, 729,295 sentenced prisoners were released from state and federal prisons, an increase of 20 percent from 2000.

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