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M O R IE P A R O L E E S
G O B A C K T O P R IS O N
By Richard Willing
Ex-convicts are being sent back
to prison in record numbers for
violating parole or for committing
new crimes, according to a new
Department of Justice study of the
nation's state and federal prisons.
Other findings:
• The nation’s state and federal
prisons held 1,302,019 adult in
mates in December 1998, an all-
time high.
• Total prison population grew
4.8% last year, the slowest rate of
growth since 1979.
• An increasing percentage of
prisoners are African American or
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Hispanic. Blacks in prison in
creased from 360,000 in 1990 to
584,000 in 1997. Hispanic, who are
of any race, numbered 213,300in
1997, up from 130,000 in 1990.
• The average state inm ate
served 27 months in 1990.
Prisoners are granted reductions
in their sentences - parole - in
return for making restitution to vic
tims, taking drug tests and meeting
other requirements. If those terms
are violated, or if a new crime is
committed, parolees can be re
turned to prison to finish their sen
tences.
States grant parole to some in
mates. There is no parole in the
federal prison system.
Parole officers, who number
about 18,000 nationwide, tradition
ally have performed a function akin
to social workers.
The following statistical infor
mation was taken from an article
in USA Today published on Au
gust 16, 1999.
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