- Mental Illness
- Quote: “In 2008, approximately 5,500 adults with mental illnesses were incarcerated in prisons in Maryland.”
- Sources:Maryland and Mental Illness: the Facts
Sabol, W. J., West, H. C. and Cooper, M., Prisoners in 2008, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, (2009), and James, D. and Glaze, L., Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, (2006)
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- Growth
- Quote: “Between 1966 and 2011 Maryland prison population grew 340% while the population of the state grew 58%.”
- Sources:
http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5300/sc5339/000113/014000/014502/unrestricted/20120338e.pdf
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&idim=state:24000:51000:25000&hl=en&dl=en - Image: “Prison” by This file is lacking author information. – http://hrc.leg.wa.gov/members/bailey/newsreleases/020503.htm. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prison.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Prison.jpg
- Drugs
- Quote: “In 2001 roughly 24% of the state’s inmate population was serving time for drug abuse offenses placing Maryland third nationally.”
- Source: http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/04-01_rep_mdtreatmentorincarceration_ac-dp.pdf
- Image: “Small time bust” Bust from http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/intel/02014/02014.html
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- Cost
- Quote: “Incarceration costs $38,383 per inmate annually. Community supervision costs $1800 per year.”
- Source: http://www.vera.org/files/price-of-prisons-maryland-fact-sheet.pdf; http://www.justicepolicy.org/research/8221 at page 10 of 15
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- Mandatory
- Quote: “Each year in Maryland, about 100 people enter the prison system as a result of mandatory sentences at a cost to taxpayers of about $200,000 each.”
- Source: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-08-12/news/bs-ed-prisons-report-20110811_1_prison-population-prison-system-criminal-justice
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- Women
- Quote: “Maryland Women’s Prison (MCIW) was built to house 200 prisoners. Today MCIW houses over 900 women.”
- Source: https://www.dhr.state.md.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/wprpt201.pdf
- Image: “BOPBarbedtape” by Federal Bureau of Prisons – http://www.bop.gov/locations/index.jsp. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BOPBarbedtape.jpg#mediaviewer/File:BOPBarbedtape.jpg
- Solitary
- Quote: “Roughly 8 percent of the 21,000 inmates in Maryland state prisons are in some form of segregation [solitary] at any given time, a significantly higher percentage than many other states.”
- Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-solitary-confinement-20140330,0,202425.story#ixzz3DP8t0pMF
- Image: “Yuma Territorial Prison cell doors” by Capvideo – Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yuma_Territorial_Prison_cell_doors.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Yuma_Territorial_Prison_cell_doors.jpg
- Parole
- Quote: “Thirty-two percent of lifers serving with the possibility of parole are currently over age 50.”
- Source: Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, data provided on February 8, 2011. Reported in http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolicy/documents/documentary_factsheet.pdf
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