The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey asked likely voters from April 15to 17th: "You cannot just free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically, you have to imprison [criminals] so you can liberate 350 million Americans...
As of December 2021, 36,000 inmates from the federal prison system were placed in home confinement because of COVID-19. It would be interesting to get information on the age distribution of those released. The US prison population declined by...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has numbers on the sex of inmates. Of the 10,025 people in federal women's prisons, 1,529 are men or 15.3%. Of the 143,714 people in federal men's prisons, 744 are women or 0.5%. So-called transgender females are thus greater over...
The power of prisoner rights groups is on full display right now in an ongoing battle with the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC). Our Nikki Goeser is fighting with TDOC to get them to remove the good time early release credits granted to the man who murdered...
Dr. John Lott from the Crime Prevention Research Center debated Baz Dreisinger from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice appeared on Turkish TRT World's The Newsmakers to debate whether prison deters crime and whether prison should be abolished (Thursday, May 26,...
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: It's easy to forget that in 1991 the U.S. murder rate was well over twice what it is today. In a speech last week at Atlanta's Clark University, Hillary Clinton showed she doesn't understand her...
The discussion focuses on John Lott's recent piece in the New York Daily News and Bloomberg's groups continued unwillingness to debate.
This data is available here (file fjs10f18.cvs). The Federal prison population was about 17 percent of the state prison population in 2011 (Appendix Table 1). In state prisons was a much smaller percent of the population there for drug offenses (about 17 percent in...
This new study from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that the previous measures of recidivism that looked at just the first two years after release missed a lot of the problem with former prisoners being rearrested. The 5 year rate for All offenses: 77% Violent...