{"id":1134,"date":"2010-03-23T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:43:18","slug":"state-prison-population-drop-is-first-since-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2010\/03\/23\/state-prison-population-drop-is-first-since-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"state prison population drop is first since 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of U.S. state prison inmates fell for the first time in 38 years, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewcenteronthestates.org\/report_detail.aspx?id=57653\">new report<\/a> by The Pew Center on the States. A few figures from the report:<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/S6kGNuyf6RI\/AAAAAAAADDk\/h4uTtLa5ABA\/s1600-h\/prisondrop3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451895656876599570\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/S6kGNuyf6RI\/AAAAAAAADDk\/h4uTtLa5ABA\/s400\/prisondrop3.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Pew attributes the drop to greater diversion of low-level offenders and probation and parole violators from prison; stronger community supervision and re-entry programs; and, a quicker release of low-risk inmates who complete risk reduction programs. State budget problems have likely played an important role in accelerating each of these trends. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/S6kHqw27N4I\/AAAAAAAADDs\/7DuMmFPycQE\/s1600-h\/prisondrop4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451897255159871362\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/S6kHqw27N4I\/AAAAAAAADDs\/7DuMmFPycQE\/s400\/prisondrop4.jpg\" \/><\/a>While the magnitude of the 2009 change is small &#8212; a drop of 5,739 inmates (or .4%) on a base rate of 1.4 million &#8212; any change in <em>direction <\/em>is meaningful after four decades of unabated growth. Nevertheless, I should note that the total number of state and federal prisoners actually rose in 2009, since the federal inmate count rose by 6,838. And, despite a crime rate that has fallen over at least the last two decades, the United States still maintains the world&#8217;s highest incarceration rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of U.S. state prison inmates fell for the first time in 38 years, according to a new report by The Pew Center on the States. A few figures from the report: Pew attributes the drop to greater diversion of low-level offenders and probation and parole violators from prison; stronger community supervision and re-entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}