It accounts for sentences of more than one year. States with a lower incarceration rate were given a higher ranking. The incarceration rate metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best ...

The future looked bright for Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Rivas Gonzalez and Abrahan Josue Barrios last week.

The juvenile incarceration metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings. See the Best States methodology for a detailed look at the data behind the analysis. 50 States ...

The United States spends approximately $80 billion on prisons and jails each year. Pfaff notes that this does not account for many of the real costs of incarceration, such as the “financial ...

Idaho has the highest rate of female incarceration in the United States, according to a new report from the Idaho Justice Project. The report, “Women’s Incarceration in Idaho: The Problem and ...

The Prison Policy Initiative, a national advocacy group and nonprofit organization, ranked Arkansas third highest in the U.S. for incarceration rates amid major jail expansion projects in the state.

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Roettger, M.E. and Boardman, J.D. (2012). Parental Incarceration and Gender-based Risks for Increased Body Mass Index: Evidence From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health in the United ...

"80 percent of those studies were conducted in the United States, and almost all of them occurred during periods of mass incarceration," says McCuish. "Canada is not the United States. Canada does ...