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STATE
THE BATTALION
Page 3B
Texas leads U.S. states in arrests
WASHINGTON (AP) — If
J 1 rf exas were a separate country, it
COTLCICIVV dtli b® P utt ing a percentage of its
/ M jopulation behind bars faster than
my other nation, according to a
tudy being released Monday.
The report by Justice Policy Insti-
ute, which supports alternatives to
arison, showed that the Texas prison
uopulation’s annual growth rate was
il.8 percent during the ’90s, which
> lv ’ l “'' luul 'r' mean t it added one in every five in-
e numbers or snaps nets t J
t „ ^ mates to the nation s prisons.
> gc anyway. “If Texas were a country, it would
) make room on the.'.- i lU , • , , ■ ;• .
,, r- u • rave the highest incarceration rate in
r. ihe Cowboy w ® |e wor , d B easi|y surpassing , he
llls 01 allc United States and Russia, the next
two finishers, and seven times that
of the next biggest prison system in
New Orleans in ano
that sent cornerbacU
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• • • , ‘i China, according to an Institute
million signing bonus® ,. ’ • , A
b * statement issued Monday.
The study report stated that Texas
imprisoned people at a faster rate
[nan any other state in the last
decade, but its crime rate is higher
than other large states with smaller
prison populations. In fact, the
state’s crime rate fell at half the na
tional average and the least of any of
the nation’s five largest states, the re
port stated.
A Texas prison official said the
1st decade’s growth was a response
to a prison revolving door during
overcrowded conditions, and the
state’s incarceration rate slowed in
, «the latter part of the decade.
\rf\ A O -fl/M The study’s authors zeroed in on
IVC JlVa UvlfTexas’ prison system after the Bureau
A Bof Justice reported earl ier this year that
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uate the town,” population 1,875, a
Forest Service official said Sunday.
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the Texas prison population of
163,190 had surpassed California’s,
163,067. California’s population of 32
million is almost twice that of Texas.
“The sheer magnitude of what is
going on in Texas alone is startling,”
said Jason Ziedenberg, the study’s
co-author.
“We're obviously
concerned about
the state that's re
sponsible for one-
fifth of all neve
prisoners between
1990 and 1999.”
— Jason Ziedenberg
Co-author of Justice Policy
Institute STudy
“Not just that it surpassed Cali
fornia, but if you look at it in the
context of a state like New York
with a million or so fewer citizens,
they (Texas) have got double the
amount of people behind bars. ...
We’re obviously concerned about
the state that’s responsible for one-
fifth of all new prisoners between
1990 and 1999.”
The Justice Policy Institute is a
think tank of the Center on Juvenile
and Criminal Justice, and the study
was paid for with a grant from the
Center on Crime, Communities and
Culture. The groups provide pro
grams for families of inmates and
look,for other solutions to criminal
behavior beyond prisons, such as
substance abuse treatment.
The study comes as Texas prison
officials are pressing for money to
build more lockups and as the in
mate population is closing in on the
system’s capacity.
Earlier this month, Tony Fabelo,
executive director of the state Crim
inal Justice Policy Council, told
elected officials that, without a
change in parole rates and policies
for returning parole violators to
prison, Texas will likely need pris
ons to hold 14,600 additional in
mates by August 2005.
On Friday, Fabelo said Texas’
rapid incarceration occunsed when
the state went on a prison-building
binge. Before that, the state inter
mittently released inmates to relieve
overcrowding and comply with
court-mandated capacity levels.
“Texas is a very large state with
a growing population. In the 1980s,
we had a broken system with a
backlog,” Fabelo said. “A great deal
of the incarceration has been deal
ing with the revolving door.”
Fabelo said that while the incar
ceration rate grew by 12 percent
from 1990-95, it was 6 percent dur
ing 1996-98.
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is just too much inexpeft lave consumed some 670,000 acres.
“Everything stayed about the
same,” said Dan Kincaid, informa
tion officer for a fire burning be-
ween Helena and Bozeman that has
turned more than 84,000 acres to ash.
Whether fire crews were in fact
- undefeated m hold ^eir own Sunday may
ipionship game. But til . not be known untl1 Monday morning
e one team’s bidtobefcf when officials get their next look at
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p ly map the fires’ boundaries at night.
“I have a feeling that we’ll dis
cover that some of the fires have in-
Ireased dramatically,” said E.Lynn
Burkett of the National Interagency
Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. “There’s
so many elements out there working
against us — steep canyons, winds
that make fires run.”
. Hundreds of soldiers from Fort
Sdays ^ ood Central Texas have been
‘ helping to cut a fire line in advance
of the 41,000-acre Burgdorf Junction
blaze at Payette National Forest in
fentral Idaho.
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control in South Dakota’s Black
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een set, a U.S. Forest Service offi
cial said Sunday night at a town
meeting.
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