a202  0855  23 Apr 89
AM-Prison Population, Bjt,0714
Federal Prison Population Climbs 7.4 Percent In 1988, Report Says
EDs: For Release at 6 p.m. EDT, time set by source
By CAROLYN SKORNECK
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A record 627,402 men and women were incarcerated
in federal and state prisons at the end of 1988, an increase of 7.4
percent over the previous year, the Justice Department said Sunday.
    ''The 1988 increase translates into a nationwide need for more than
800 new prison bedspaces per week,'' said the report written by
Lawrence A. Greenfeld, corrections unit chief for the department's
Bureau of Justice Statistics.
    But prison construction has not kept pace with the inmate
population, the report found, with overall prison capacity increasing
by just 5.5 percent in 1988.
    The number of new prisoners, 42,967, was about 3,500 more than the
number added during 1987, which had been a 7.2 percent hike over the
previousyear, the report said.
    ''Since 1980, 18 states, the District of Columbia and the federal
prison system have more than doubled the number of sentenced
prisoners (those serving more than one year), and Alaska, California,
New Hampshire and New Jersey have experienced a threefold increase,''
the report said.
    The prison populations of the latter four states jumped from 29,725
in 1980 to 93,597 in 1988, the report said.
    The states that have more than doubled the number of such prisoners
since 1980 were Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Kansas,
Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Utah.
    The increases were attributed both to the heightened likelihood that
a serious offender will receive a prison sentence and a 113 percent
increase in the number of adults arrested for drug trafficking or
manufacturing, the report said.
    The incarceration rate, based on the number of people sentenced to
more than one year in prison, reached 244 per 100,000 residents
nationwide. In 1980, the rate was 139 per 100,000.
    The Western states had the highest increase in total prisoners, 11.5
percent, while the Northeast had a 9.2 percent increase, the Midwest
8.6 percent, and the South 4.7 percent.
    The 10 states with the biggest percentage increase in total prison
population from 1987 to 1988 were Rhode Island, 33.5 percent;
Colorado, 24.7 percent; New Hampshire, 17.5 percent, Michigan, 16.1
percent; California, 13.7 percent; Arizona, 11.1 percent; Missouri,
10.8 percent; Kentucky, 10.6 percent; Nevada, 10.1 percent, and
Minnesota, 9.9 percent.
    But the prison population actually declined in seven states, the
report found. The states with declines were South Dakota, down by 10
percent; Washington, down 5.1 percent; Maine, down 2.3 percent;
Tennessee and Alabama, down 1.7 percent; North Carolina, down 0.9
percent, and West Virginia, down 0.2 percent.
    Although men in prison still vastly outnumber the women
incarcerated, the number of women inmates increased at a faster rate
during 1988, 12.5 percent, than the men, 7.1 percent. The number of
women in state and federal prisons grew from 29,064 at the end of
1987 to 32,691 at the end of 1988, while the number of men in prison
increased from 555,371 to 594,711.
    As for prison construction, the report said that nationwide, state
prisons were operating at 7 percent to 23 percent over capacity,
while federal prisons were estimated to be between 33 percent and 72
percent over capacity. A total of 14,314 prisoners were being housed
in local jails in 17 states because of crowded conditions.
    During 1988, total state and federal prison capacities increased by
28,000 to 31,000 beds, depending on how the various jurisdictions
rated capacities, the report found.
    Even the highest estimate of capacity nationwide - 566,898 beds - is
still 60,504 fewer than the 627,402 inmates at the end of 1988, an
excess of 10 percent, assuming the prisoners were spread out evenly
across the country.
    Greg Bogdan of the Bureau of Prisons said the 55 federal correction
institutions are operating at an average of 55 percent over capacity,
but the bureau's director, J. Michael Quinlan, hopes to reduce that
to approximately 30 percent by 1995.
    By that year, he said, the federal prisons will have a much larger
population, as the bureau anticipates the number of inmates will
reach some 83,500 by 1995.
    
 
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a230  1402  23 Apr 89
AM-Digest, Advisory,0073
    All the budgets have moved. Here is a list:
    WASHINGTON - Prison Population, a202
    MOSCOW - Soviet-Space, a206
    WASHINGTON - Husbands Anonymous, a209
    BEIJING - China, a215
    WASHINGTON - Wright Probe, a216
    JERUSALEM - Israel, a218
    NORFOLK, Va. - Battleship-Explosion, a219
    OMAHA, Neb. - Housing Evictions, a222
    WASHINGTON - Environment-Polls, a223
    VALDEZ, Alaska - Tanker Spill, a227
    The AP
    
 
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a204  0910  23 Apr 89
AM-Prison Population-States,0261
For Release at 6 p.m. EDT, time set by source
With AM-Prison Population Bjt
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Here is a list of the total prison population in
the United States as a whole as well as the 50 states and the
District of Columbia as of Dec. 31, 1988, the prison populations at
the end of 1987 and the percentage of the change.
Area        1988         1987        Change
U.S.    627,402     584,435        7.4
Ala.     12,610        12,827     -1.7
Alaska      2,588         2,528        2.4
Ariz.    12,158        10,948     11.2
Ark.        5,519         5,441        1.4
Calif.   76,171        66,975     13.7
Colo.       5,997         4,808     24.7 
Conn.       8,005         7,511        6.6
Del.        3,166         2,939        7.7
D.C.        8,705         7,645     13.9
Fla.     34,732        32,445        7.0
Ga.      18,787        18,575        1.1
Hawaii      2,367         2,268        4.4
Idaho       1,548         1,435        7.9
Ill.     21,081        19,850        6.2
Ind.     11,406        10,827        5.3
Iowa        3,034         2,851        6.4
Kans.       5,936         5,781        2.7
Ky.         7,119         6,436     10.6 
La.      16,149        15,375        5.0
Maine       1,297         1,328     -2.3
Md.      14,276        13,467        6.0
Mass.       6,733         6,265        7.5
Mich.    27,714        23,879     16.1
Minn.       2,799         2,546        9.9
Miss.       7,438         6,880        8.1
Mo.      12,354        11,146     10.8
Mont.       1,272         1,187        7.2
Neb.        2,205         2,086        5.7
Nev.        4,881         4,434     10.1
N.H.        1,019             867     17.5
N.J.     16,936        15,548        8.9
N.M.        2,825         2,710        4.2
N.Y.     44,560        40,842        9.1
N.C.     17,069        17,218     -0.9
N.D.            466             430        8.4
Ohio     26,113        24,220        7.8
Okla.    10,448         9,639        8.4
Ore.        5,991         5,482        9.3
Pa.      17,879        16,267        9.9
R.I.        1,906         1,428     33.5
S.C.     13,745        12,664        8.5
S.D.        1,020         1,133    -10.0
Tenn.       7,491         7,624     -1.7
Texas    40,437        38,821        4.2
Utah        2,004         1,874        6.9
Vt.             811             759        6.9
Va.      14,184        13,321        6.5
Wash.       5,816         6,131     -5.1
W.Va.       1,458         1,461     -0.2
Wis.        6,287         6,097        3.1
Wyo.            962             916        5.0
    
 
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