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Prisonsucks.com is a clearinghouse for useful, verifiable statistics about the crime control industry. Too often prison activists use statistics that are out of date, provided without citation or simply wrong. One of these days the public will start listening to prison activists, so let's be prepared to win without being sidetracked by arguments over defective statistics. In some cases, the numbers we need don't exist. In others, the facts exist but activists don't know where to find them. Now you do.

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Bureau of Justice Statistics ^popular (Added: 19-Nov-2001 Hits: 681)

The Prison Index: - Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry. is the first index of statistics about our nation's criminal justice system ever published. Containing 611 facts and 17 graphs and charts, this 48-page volume presents, in black-and-white, the state of crime control in America. ^popular (Added: 17-Jun-2003 Hits: 565)

National Criminal Justice Referenece Service - "NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide." (Added: 6-Mar-2006 Hits: 72)

National Institute of Justice, International Center - The global challenge of crime is our focus. Law and justice across national borders is ourinterest. Knowledge and information are our tools. The International Center is building a worldwide criminal justice community. (Added: 24-Nov-2001 Hits: 178)

National Institute of Justice, International Center, UN Activities - Papers presented at the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 10th Session held in Vienna, Austria (Added: 24-Nov-2001 Hits: 135)

New York Inmate Population Statistics - for state prisoners, NYC jail inmates and county jail inmates, every quarter from 1995 to present. (Added: 2-Dec-2003 Hits: 208)

Prison Policy Initiative - produces accurate, timely and accessible statistics and reports for use by activists, journalists and policy makers on prison and responses to crime. Our work starts with the idea that the racial, gender and economic disparities between the prison population and the larger society represent the grounds for a democratic catastrophe (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 297)

PrisonSucks.com - Research on the prison industrial complex. Includes an incarceration clock and an index of online studies and reports on crime control policy. (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 238)

Racial Disparity Initiative-Council on Crime and Justice - Contains the 17 major research reports on racial disparities within the Minnesota Criminal Justice System and the Collateral consequences of the prevailing disparities. (Added: 19-Dec-2006 Hits: 63)

Real Cost of Prisons - The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together prison/justice policy activists with political economists to create popular education workshops and materials which explore both the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation. (Added: 28-Nov-2003 Hits: 377)

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