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West Virginia has the second fastest-growing prisonpopulation in the nation. At the end of 2010, the state Division of Corrections had custody of 6,681 inmates. The number of prisoners is expected to increase to 8,251 by 2015 and... Published: Sunday, April 17, 2011 Words: 432
Statistical Analysis Center, said growth in the state's inmate population is gradually slowing. From 2000 to 2007, the stateprisonpopulation grew at a rate of 8.1 percent a year. In the past two years, that rate has slowed to between... Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Words: 625
The project's report for that state, issued late last month, recommended that decreasing reliance on prison space would shrink the prisonpopulation by thousands of inmates and save $350 million over five years, with only a quarter... Published: Monday, June 18, 2012 Words: 797
they will go away. Sometimes it might work, but most of the time it doesn't. One example is West Virginia's mushrooming prisonpopulation. State leaders have been aware of the problem for more than a decade but until recently have been... Published: Sunday, March 31, 2013 Words: 1018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that California must drastically reduce its prisonpopulation to relieve severe overcrowding that has exposed inmates to increased violence, disease and death. The decision,... Published: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Words: 754
federal prisons only 215,000; another 731,200 were in local jails.) Drug offenders make up a much smaller share of the stateprisonpopulation. Keeping fewer of them locked up would hardly dent the states’ head count. Handing down long... Published: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 Words: 560
programs, and mandatory post-release supervision. If properly implemented, the proposals should stabilize the state's prisonpopulation at about 7,400 inmates by 2018, producing savings of $116 million on operating costs and eliminating... Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 Words: 547
at Division of Corrections facilities. That number is projected to nearly double to 3,200 in five years. The state's prison or prison-bound population, including those awaiting transfers from jails, topped 6,880 this month, legislators... Published: Monday, May 23, 2011 Words: 800
Control overcrowding by paroling inmates Editor: The problem with the West Virginia prisonpopulation is a bunch of uneducated, overpaid state employees. The prison-overcrowding problem stems from prison officials not doing their jobs... Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 Words: 634
while also working on a broader goal of reducing the prisonpopulation. With 1.5 million inmates, the U.S. has the world's largest prisonpopulation, and costs are soaring at the federal and state levels. In Texas, it costs about $18,200... Published: Sunday, January 18, 2015 Words: 809
