This metric evaluates the number of sentenced prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction per ... States with a lower incarceration rate were given a higher ranking. The incarceration rate ...

According to the organization, Arkansas has an incarceration rate of 912 per 100,000 ... Around 27,000 Arkansans are incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails, the report says.

Contrary to popular assumption, the remarkably high and increasing rates of incarceration ... Federal Bureau of Investigations' annual publication of Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United ...

Corrections – including prisons, parole, juvenile and other programs – costs billions of dollars a year. The corrections outcomes subcategory informs the best states for crime and corrections ...

Despite producing billions of dollars in value for the benefit of prisons and the private sector, incarcerated workers have almost no labor rights and are paid very little—if they are paid at all—for ...

Requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics to conduct annual surveys and research on the prevalence and effects of prison rape in local, state and federal prisons; Creates the Review Panel on ...

The state reduced its prison population by ... Oklahoma’s rate of 550 prisoners per 100,000 residents is the lowest reported by the federal agency in decades. Oklahoma had the nation’s highest ...