The number of people supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems has dropped continuously for nine years. This is a big statistical improvement for the corrections system since the 1970’s, when we implemented the War on Drugs, Get Tough on Crime Laws, etc. Also, in 2016 this number was lower than ever since 1993. It says 1 in 38 of adults were under some type of correctional supervision, which seems high but you have to keep in mind the people on probation , who are not in prisons making them overcrowded. Staying on the topic of probation, the community supervision population fell from 4,586,900 on January 1, 2016 to 4,537,100 on December 31, 2016. For just one year, reducing this number by approximately 49,000 is pretty successful in my eyes. This is due to the decline in offenders on probation. Parole on the other hand has increased. The number of parolees increased 2% from 2007 to 2016, but with that being said, parolees are the smallest percentage of correctional population during that nine year period. The incarceration population on the other hand only slightly decreased. From 2015 to 2016, it had only decreased about 21,000. It says this is due to the decline in prison population, but the stableness of the jail population. This makes sense because you will always have offenders in jail for a number of reasons being awaiting trial, petty offenses, etc. I would rather these offenders be in jail than in prison for the sole reason they are most likely not committing violent crimes and are not a future threat to society. Since 2007, the correctional supervision rate has decreased steadily and reached its all time low in 2016. It had reached its lowest since 1993, from all the offenders in corrections from the War on Drugs and Get Tough on Crime Laws. -lilbaby001
Between 2007 and 2016 the number of people under supervision dropped an astounding 18% including probation and parole not just incarceration. The decrees in the incarcerated population came from prisons not jails. This is likely because people incarcerated for drug-related crimes years ago are now getting out on parole and we are taking a more relaxed stance on drug-related crimes. The number of people out on parole between 2007 and 2016 was up by .6% which does indicate that more people are leaving prisons. Prison populations are down 1.2% for the same time periods which may also indicate that fewer people are entering the correctional population. The number of people in prisons by the end of 2016 I was at the lowest since observed in 2004 having 10400 fewer people than the year before. In 2016 the number of people being supervised under probation saw a decrease of nearly 50,000 in that year alone which is a decrease of 1.4% while the parole population increased by 0.5%.I think a lot of these numbers can be attributed to a more relaxed outlook on drug-related crimes. Maybe the increase of people out on parole is due to understanding that their punishments might not have fit the crimes? On top of that the incarceration rates have also dropped and we're at the lowest they've been since 1996 which means people aren't getting locked up as frequently as they used to for what might be similar crimes. I think the criminal justice system's Outlook on crime is changing because I don't really think people are completing less severe crimes or even different crimes. I think the idea that some of these people just need help is becoming a more widespread idea and maybe people are more willing to offer that help. I'm not positive about that it's just an idea. -Waterboy001
I agree that more and more people need help and people are starting to realize this. I think that helping people is essential. I think that the fact that prisons and jails cannot keep up with the number of patients that need mental healthcare services that we should be looking for other options and maybe instead of incarceration we can be moving them to mental healthcare facilities or shorten their incarceration and have them go to different rehabs so then when they get back into society and have less of a chance to offend again and can be functioning members of society. -Legion001
This report starts with a staggering statistic of how many people were under supervision within the adult corrections system on December 31, 2016. This means probation, jail, prison, and parole. That number of people is 6,613,500 people. That is an absolutely crazy number. This is a high number, but according to this report, 2016 was the ninth year in a row that the number of individuals in the corrections system had dropped. From the year 2007 to 2016 the number of people within the system fell 18%. In class, we have been talking about how crime is going down so that might be a reason why the incarceration rate is going down. Another statistic I found in this report is that the end of the year 2016 1 in every 38 adults was under some sort of were under some kind of correctional supervision. I think that it is a good thing that the overall numbers are going down. It shows that people are either not committing as much crime or we are finding new ways of punishment and correcting people. In 2016 the number of people adults being supervised in the corrections system was at its lowest since 1993. From January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016, the number of people under supervision decreased 62,700 people. I think that it is excellent that crime is declining and we are finding new ways to punish, and we are going to probation more and more. I think that some low-level crimes that are nonviolent crimes should get probation or we should lower the sentence, but I still think that warehousing hardened criminals that are violent and a threat to society we should just lock up. I think that America should be careful in giving out probation because to some people that is not a punishment and they will continue to offend is not a scary deterrent to committing a crime. -Legion001
I agree that initial number had jumped off the page to me as well. I also found it interesting to learn that we are slowly decreasing but when it is from such a high number like that it makes me wonder how effective our decreasing is. I agree the probation can be viewed as a slap on the wrist type of punishment to some people, but to others this can be big change in the right direction. Most are on probation from their first crime or conviction and just need the point in the right direction Jackrabbit001
The article started off with a demeaning fact. It explained that the prison population has only declined by an average of 1.2% over the last few years. To me, this just is not going to work if we are to ever stop the overcrowding of prisons and jails. The article showed that probationers made up the largest part of supervision. I can see this as a good step because hopefully it prevents citizens from going to prison if they follow through with their probation. Many of the statistics showed a steady decline which is a good step in the right direction. I understand that a major change can not happen over night. I feel that we should have seen this over population of prisons coming and reacted to it when it was not a major problems as it is now. One highlight that surprised me was that one in 36 persons were under a form of correctional supervision at the year end of 2016. That number seems quite large. This article also mentioned that the jail populations held relatively still. This is interesting to me because I understand that a good population of jail inmates are awaiting trail. So my assumption would be that the courts are not issuing a harsh sentence and that would be why the prison population would be down. This article showed many statistics in great dept of change throughout the years. It is interesting to see which direction as a criminal justice system we will be heading. This shows that we are angled in the right direction but possibly just not moving quick enough. Jackrabbit001
The report begins by describing just how many people are under supervision within the adult corrections system. It states that there are 6,613,500 people under supervision divided among probation, jail, prisons and parole. That is a disturbing amount of people that are under such supervision. We all think that the amount of people in prison is high, but we rarely look at the bigger picture. This issue is much larger than just prisons. Probation and parole officers both are understaffed and get more cases to handle than they are supposed to. Seeing numbers like this, its no wonder why these types of officers are in such high demand. However, the report states that since 2007 the number of people under such supervision has gone down by an average of 1.2%. Clearly that is a very small percentage. The decrease in supervision has gone down yes, but its decreasing very slowly. The amount of people decreased by 1.2% over the span of 9 years. This is clearly a very slow prosses and a costly one at that. It costs around 81 billion dollars to run these various programs. Food, bedding, medical, etc. there is so much that has to be accounted for when running these programs. Yes, the amount of people is in fact decreasing as this report has shown, but not fast enough. America may need to review some of their laws and find better balance between punishment and crime. We can’t keep spending money like this. For certain offenses, such as those found in posetion of drugs, so long as it is deemed as for their own personal use, time behind bars should be limited. Instead of locking them up, maybe we could try to offer them help, or get them into an N.A program. I feel that America is arresting more people than they can afford at the moment. I believe that reforms need to happen and soon. Sexy_in_bikini001
The two original conflicts that caused our over population in prisons was the War on Drugs and Get Tough on Crime laws that went along with it. This caused a huge spike in our incarceration rates but currently they have been dropping and that can be seen in this report. The total number of people under the supervision of correctional facilities has been on a steady decline and in roughly 10 years had dropped 18%. The call for reform after our get tough on crime era was very large and seems to have been working fairly efficiently to reduce the number of people in the correctional system. While roughly 6.6 million individuals are still under the system and that number may seem high but the report shows that for the 9th straight year the population has been on a decline. Seeing the numbers and charts of how steady of a decline the populations of jail prison and parole is great because we are finding better ways to sentence individuals. Whether that be finding them help with drug addiction through rehab, or mental help for those who are unstable but need help. New structured ways of sentencing I believe is a very large piece to the puzzle of lowering the national incarceration numbers. Get tough on crime laws had such a large echo with just locking everyone up for small nonviolent crimes and that caused new sentencing laws and mandatory minimums to form which is what we are recovering from to this day. Mandatory minimums are great when the crime suites the punishment but not when it results in a whole array of time in the system for a simple misdemeanor of drug possession. Being alive while this reform is occurring in our criminal justice system is such a interesting thing to watch, especially as it drops our prisoner population more and more each year that passes. -Blues001
From January 1, 2016 to December 31 of the same year the population in corrections went down by .9%. Over the span of 9 years the population declined by an average 1.2% yearly, at the end of 2016 about 1 in 38 people were under correctional authority. A .5% decrease in the incarcerated population and a 1.1% decline in people being supervised within their communities is what led to the .9% decline seen from January to December of 2016. The exponentially smaller number of those getting community supervision in 2016 accounted for almost 80% of the overall population in corrections. To break it down more specifically, the article says that the population in probation went down by 1.4%, while the population in parole went up by 0.5%, leading to an overall decline in the population of community supervision. To me, it seems like us moving further away from the get tough on crime age has been beneficial in our reform. The days of locking people up for the pettiest of crimes need to finally be put behind us. It has been, ballpark, 40 years since the war on drugs, and getting tough on crime all started. And still, in 2019, we are recovering from the well intended fight against crime in our country. For almost 10 straight years, our incarceration numbers have been going down. Another interesting highlight from this article was that From 2007 to 2016, the portion of the adult population under supervision of U.S. correctional systems decreased by 18%, from 3,210 to 2,640 per 100,000 adult residents. This a trend that we need to see through until the end, until we are only locking up those who are a danger to society. -psych001
When talking about correctional population for adults that have supervision focuses on jails, prisons, people on parole or probation. According to the article, in 2016 there was an estimate of 6,613,500 people on correctional supervision, which has been steadily decreasing since 2006. This data also includes juvenile that are convicted as adults in the criminal court. Something that was interesting was the Jail Census that has been used since 1970’s to collect data on how many inmates are in the facility. Also, the death in custody reporting programs is a collection at the national and state level to show how many people died in custody. I also learned that there are adjustments made for offenders that that dual correctional status. I didn’t know that you could have dual statuses, which make sense when an offender is on probation and then is arrested for another offence but maybe their probation officer wasn’t notified. Even if they were incarcerated in a different jurisdiction, or even serving separate sentences concurrently. Which would be better than servicing them consecutively, that also meaning serving them back to back. In Dec. 2016 there were 1,810 adult offenders per 100,000 US residents were on probation or parole. Which is better than having them overcrowded in the prisons. Where they can also be out working and being with their families. taco001
As is known, the correctional population in America is extremely high, perhaps too high. In 2016, nearly 6.5 million people were under control of the correctional system. This consisted of those in jail, prison, probation, and parole. In recent years,the correctional system has made attempt to lower this number, as shown in the Justice Department statistics given in the reading. There were key highlights that illustrate this point of attempting to lower the number. A few of these were in 2016 the number of correctional supervised persons dropped for the 9th year in a row. The incarceration rate dropped since 2009 and is at its low since 1993. Though mass incarceration is still an ongoing problem. The incarcerated rate decreased 15,000 people in 2016 alone. But, these statistics aren’t as convincing as they may seem. The justice system is corrupted in a sense. As the number of incarcerated (prison) population has decreased, the amount of people in jails has increased drastically. Prisoners increase revenue, as the average inmate cost is north of thirty thousand dollars a year. Rather than giving people probation or community service, many people serve time for non-violent offenses. Sexual assault and violent charges should earn time but I do not feel time should be the consequence for every offense, such as certain drug charges or minor offenses. If you’re a mass drug distributor, that’s one thing. But small scale or even drug users should see rehabilitation, not time. Prison simply does not give rehabilitation and that is a known fact. But, probation rates have increased, as should be. Also, within the reading are included percent changes and tables to illustrate much of these changes as well. Overall, the justice system had made moves to better itself, but mass incarceration and wrongful punishment is still an epidemic that will hopefully be changed with time. -freckles001
When reading this article I was suprised to see a few things, that the general population of prisons are decreasing, an average of 1 in 38 of all people in the United States are under correctional supervision, and although probation and prison populations are decreasing, the parole rates are increasing. I found these three interesting because I was under the impression that the rates are rising instead of declining. I thought I had heard the other way around at least. The rate of the 1 to 38 is surprising to me because I just can't see all of that many people being under correctional supervision. I generally thought we would also have more people being locked up then on parole because of the list of people still awaiting trial and such. I'm generally confused but happy this article had good statistics because I have been thinking that the these rates were backwards. - Lobster001
The number of people supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems has dropped continuously for nine years. This is a big statistical improvement for the corrections system since the 1970’s, when we implemented the War on Drugs, Get Tough on Crime Laws, etc. Also, in 2016 this number was lower than ever since 1993. It says 1 in 38 of adults were under some type of correctional supervision, which seems high but you have to keep in mind the people on probation , who are not in prisons making them overcrowded. Staying on the topic of probation, the community supervision population fell from 4,586,900 on January 1, 2016 to 4,537,100 on December 31, 2016. For just one year, reducing this number by approximately 49,000 is pretty successful in my eyes. This is due to the decline in offenders on probation. Parole on the other hand has increased. The number of parolees increased 2% from 2007 to 2016, but with that being said, parolees are the smallest percentage of correctional population during that nine year period. The incarceration population on the other hand only slightly decreased. From 2015 to 2016, it had only decreased about 21,000. It says this is due to the decline in prison population, but the stableness of the jail population. This makes sense because you will always have offenders in jail for a number of reasons being awaiting trial, petty offenses, etc. I would rather these offenders be in jail than in prison for the sole reason they are most likely not committing violent crimes and are not a future threat to society. Since 2007, the correctional supervision rate has decreased steadily and reached its all time low in 2016. It had reached its lowest since 1993, from all the offenders in corrections from the War on Drugs and Get Tough on Crime Laws. -lilbaby001
ReplyDeleteBetween 2007 and 2016 the number of people under supervision dropped an astounding 18% including probation and parole not just incarceration. The decrees in the incarcerated population came from prisons not jails. This is likely because people incarcerated for drug-related crimes years ago are now getting out on parole and we are taking a more relaxed stance on drug-related crimes. The number of people out on parole between 2007 and 2016 was up by .6% which does indicate that more people are leaving prisons. Prison populations are down 1.2% for the same time periods which may also indicate that fewer people are entering the correctional population. The number of people in prisons by the end of 2016 I was at the lowest since observed in 2004 having 10400 fewer people than the year before. In 2016 the number of people being supervised under probation saw a decrease of nearly 50,000 in that year alone which is a decrease of 1.4% while the parole population increased by 0.5%.I think a lot of these numbers can be attributed to a more relaxed outlook on drug-related crimes. Maybe the increase of people out on parole is due to understanding that their punishments might not have fit the crimes? On top of that the incarceration rates have also dropped and we're at the lowest they've been since 1996 which means people aren't getting locked up as frequently as they used to for what might be similar crimes. I think the criminal justice system's Outlook on crime is changing because I don't really think people are completing less severe crimes or even different crimes. I think the idea that some of these people just need help is becoming a more widespread idea and maybe people are more willing to offer that help. I'm not positive about that it's just an idea. -Waterboy001
ReplyDeleteI agree that more and more people need help and people are starting to realize this. I think that helping people is essential. I think that the fact that prisons and jails cannot keep up with the number of patients that need mental healthcare services that we should be looking for other options and maybe instead of incarceration we can be moving them to mental healthcare facilities or shorten their incarceration and have them go to different rehabs so then when they get back into society and have less of a chance to offend again and can be functioning members of society. -Legion001
DeleteThis report starts with a staggering statistic of how many people were under supervision within the adult corrections system on December 31, 2016. This means probation, jail, prison, and parole. That number of people is 6,613,500 people. That is an absolutely crazy number. This is a high number, but according to this report, 2016 was the ninth year in a row that the number of individuals in the corrections system had dropped. From the year 2007 to 2016 the number of people within the system fell 18%. In class, we have been talking about how crime is going down so that might be a reason why the incarceration rate is going down. Another statistic I found in this report is that the end of the year 2016 1 in every 38 adults was under some sort of were under some kind of correctional supervision. I think that it is a good thing that the overall numbers are going down. It shows that people are either not committing as much crime or we are finding new ways of punishment and correcting people. In 2016 the number of people adults being supervised in the corrections system was at its lowest since 1993. From January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2016, the number of people under supervision decreased 62,700 people. I think that it is excellent that crime is declining and we are finding new ways to punish, and we are going to probation more and more. I think that some low-level crimes that are nonviolent crimes should get probation or we should lower the sentence, but I still think that warehousing hardened criminals that are violent and a threat to society we should just lock up. I think that America should be careful in giving out probation because to some people that is not a punishment and they will continue to offend is not a scary deterrent to committing a crime. -Legion001
ReplyDeleteI agree that initial number had jumped off the page to me as well. I also found it interesting to learn that we are slowly decreasing but when it is from such a high number like that it makes me wonder how effective our decreasing is. I agree the probation can be viewed as a slap on the wrist type of punishment to some people, but to others this can be big change in the right direction. Most are on probation from their first crime or conviction and just need the point in the right direction Jackrabbit001
DeleteThe article started off with a demeaning fact. It explained that the prison population has only declined by an average of 1.2% over the last few years. To me, this just is not going to work if we are to ever stop the overcrowding of prisons and jails. The article showed that probationers made up the largest part of supervision. I can see this as a good step because hopefully it prevents citizens from going to prison if they follow through with their probation. Many of the statistics showed a steady decline which is a good step in the right direction. I understand that a major change can not happen over night. I feel that we should have seen this over population of prisons coming and reacted to it when it was not a major problems as it is now. One highlight that surprised me was that one in 36 persons were under a form of correctional supervision at the year end of 2016. That number seems quite large. This article also mentioned that the jail populations held relatively still. This is interesting to me because I understand that a good population of jail inmates are awaiting trail. So my assumption would be that the courts are not issuing a harsh sentence and that would be why the prison population would be down. This article showed many statistics in great dept of change throughout the years. It is interesting to see which direction as a criminal justice system we will be heading. This shows that we are angled in the right direction but possibly just not moving quick enough. Jackrabbit001
ReplyDeleteThe report begins by describing just how many people are under supervision within the adult corrections system. It states that there are 6,613,500 people under supervision divided among probation, jail, prisons and parole. That is a disturbing amount of people that are under such supervision. We all think that the amount of people in prison is high, but we rarely look at the bigger picture. This issue is much larger than just prisons. Probation and parole officers both are understaffed and get more cases to handle than they are supposed to. Seeing numbers like this, its no wonder why these types of officers are in such high demand. However, the report states that since 2007 the number of people under such supervision has gone down by an average of 1.2%. Clearly that is a very small percentage. The decrease in supervision has gone down yes, but its decreasing very slowly. The amount of people decreased by 1.2% over the span of 9 years. This is clearly a very slow prosses and a costly one at that. It costs around 81 billion dollars to run these various programs. Food, bedding, medical, etc. there is so much that has to be accounted for when running these programs. Yes, the amount of people is in fact decreasing as this report has shown, but not fast enough. America may need to review some of their laws and find better balance between punishment and crime. We can’t keep spending money like this. For certain offenses, such as those found in posetion of drugs, so long as it is deemed as for their own personal use, time behind bars should be limited. Instead of locking them up, maybe we could try to offer them help, or get them into an N.A program. I feel that America is arresting more people than they can afford at the moment. I believe that reforms need to happen and soon. Sexy_in_bikini001
ReplyDeleteThe two original conflicts that caused our over population in prisons was the War on Drugs and Get Tough on Crime laws that went along with it. This caused a huge spike in our incarceration rates but currently they have been dropping and that can be seen in this report. The total number of people under the supervision of correctional facilities has been on a steady decline and in roughly 10 years had dropped 18%. The call for reform after our get tough on crime era was very large and seems to have been working fairly efficiently to reduce the number of people in the correctional system. While roughly 6.6 million individuals are still under the system and that number may seem high but the report shows that for the 9th straight year the population has been on a decline. Seeing the numbers and charts of how steady of a decline the populations of jail prison and parole is great because we are finding better ways to sentence individuals. Whether that be finding them help with drug addiction through rehab, or mental help for those who are unstable but need help. New structured ways of sentencing I believe is a very large piece to the puzzle of lowering the national incarceration numbers. Get tough on crime laws had such a large echo with just locking everyone up for small nonviolent crimes and that caused new sentencing laws and mandatory minimums to form which is what we are recovering from to this day. Mandatory minimums are great when the crime suites the punishment but not when it results in a whole array of time in the system for a simple misdemeanor of drug possession. Being alive while this reform is occurring in our criminal justice system is such a interesting thing to watch, especially as it drops our prisoner population more and more each year that passes. -Blues001
ReplyDeleteFrom January 1, 2016 to December 31 of the same year the population in corrections went down by .9%. Over the span of 9 years the population declined by an average 1.2% yearly, at the end of 2016 about 1 in 38 people were under correctional authority. A .5% decrease in the incarcerated population and a 1.1% decline in people being supervised within their communities is what led to the .9% decline seen from January to December of 2016. The exponentially smaller number of those getting community supervision in 2016 accounted for almost 80% of the overall population in corrections. To break it down more specifically, the article says that the population in probation went down by 1.4%, while the population in parole went up by 0.5%, leading to an overall decline in the population of community supervision. To me, it seems like us moving further away from the get tough on crime age has been beneficial in our reform. The days of locking people up for the pettiest of crimes need to finally be put behind us. It has been, ballpark, 40 years since the war on drugs, and getting tough on crime all started. And still, in 2019, we are recovering from the well intended fight against crime in our country. For almost 10 straight years, our incarceration numbers have been going down. Another interesting highlight from this article was that From 2007 to 2016, the portion of the adult population under supervision of U.S. correctional systems decreased by 18%, from 3,210 to 2,640 per 100,000 adult residents. This a trend that we need to see through until the end, until we are only locking up those who are a danger to society. -psych001
ReplyDeleteWhen talking about correctional population for adults that have supervision focuses on jails, prisons, people on parole or probation. According to the article, in 2016 there was an estimate of 6,613,500 people on correctional supervision, which has been steadily decreasing since 2006. This data also includes juvenile that are convicted as adults in the criminal court. Something that was interesting was the Jail Census that has been used since 1970’s to collect data on how many inmates are in the facility. Also, the death in custody reporting programs is a collection at the national and state level to show how many people died in custody. I also learned that there are adjustments made for offenders that that dual correctional status. I didn’t know that you could have dual statuses, which make sense when an offender is on probation and then is arrested for another offence but maybe their probation officer wasn’t notified. Even if they were incarcerated in a different jurisdiction, or even serving separate sentences concurrently. Which would be better than servicing them consecutively, that also meaning serving them back to back. In Dec. 2016 there were 1,810 adult offenders per 100,000 US residents were on probation or parole. Which is better than having them overcrowded in the prisons. Where they can also be out working and being with their families. taco001
ReplyDeleteAs is known, the correctional population in America is extremely high, perhaps too high. In 2016, nearly 6.5 million people were under control of the correctional system. This consisted of those in jail, prison, probation, and parole. In recent years,the correctional system has made attempt to lower this number, as shown in the Justice Department statistics given in the reading. There were key highlights that illustrate this point of attempting to lower the number. A few of these were in 2016 the number of correctional supervised persons dropped for the 9th year in a row. The incarceration rate dropped since 2009 and is at its low since 1993. Though mass incarceration is still an ongoing problem. The incarcerated rate decreased 15,000 people in 2016 alone. But, these statistics aren’t as convincing as they may seem. The justice system is corrupted in a sense. As the number of incarcerated (prison) population has decreased, the amount of people in jails has increased drastically. Prisoners increase revenue, as the average inmate cost is north of thirty thousand dollars a year. Rather than giving people probation or community service, many people serve time for non-violent offenses. Sexual assault and violent charges should earn time but I do not feel time should be the consequence for every offense, such as certain drug charges or minor offenses. If you’re a mass drug distributor, that’s one thing. But small scale or even drug users should see rehabilitation, not time. Prison simply does not give rehabilitation and that is a known fact. But, probation rates have increased, as should be. Also, within the reading are included percent changes and tables to illustrate much of these changes as well. Overall, the justice system had made moves to better itself, but mass incarceration and wrongful punishment is still an epidemic that will hopefully be changed with time. -freckles001
ReplyDeleteWhen reading this article I was suprised to see a few things, that the general population of prisons are decreasing, an average of 1 in 38 of all people in the United States are under correctional supervision, and although probation and prison populations are decreasing, the parole rates are increasing. I found these three interesting because I was under the impression that the rates are rising instead of declining. I thought I had heard the other way around at least. The rate of the 1 to 38 is surprising to me because I just can't see all of that many people being under correctional supervision. I generally thought we would also have more people being locked up then on parole because of the list of people still awaiting trial and such. I'm generally confused but happy this article had good statistics because I have been thinking that the these rates were backwards. - Lobster001
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