Posts Tagged ‘Trends’
Private Prison Populations Grew Five Times Faster than Prisons Overall
The Sentencing Project, a non-profit advocacy group, recently released a short study on privately-owned prisons in the U.S. One of the most striking facts documented by the study, Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: U.S. Growth in Private Prisons, was that in the first sixteen years of this century, the number of inmates held by private prison…
Read MoreFederal Court Caseloads Threaten Constitutional Protections
Civil and criminal case filings in federal courts have grown dramatically over the past two decades, but at the same time, the number of judges available to hear them has barely increased according to a report by researchers at Syracuse University. As a result, the study concluded, if Congress fails to act to solve the…
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