Date research report presented by Hsieh and Pugh establishes a procedure of meta-analysis to 34 aggregate data studies reporting on violent crime, poverty, and income inequality. The overall study reported a total of 76 zero-order correlation coefficients for all measures of violent crime with either poverty or income inequality- that concludes that poverty and income...

An infamous 1984 United States Court Case between the United States Petitioner and respondent Salerno argued whether or not if the 1984 Bail Reform Act violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. 1984 Bail Reform Act allowed the federal courts to detain an arrestee prior to trial if the government could prove that the individual...

The study evaluates the 1980-1983 Illinois Early Release program. A total of 21,000 inmates were released by selectively awarding inmates with satisfactory conduct additional good-time credits were deducted from their determinate sentence. A detailed inmate arrest history file was created, making it possible to estimate precisely the number of arrests from the early release program...

This opinion piece discusses the controversy of overcrowding and early release programs in the 1970s. Some states were forced into developing early release programs because of civil rights lawsuits, and overcrowding. Overcrowding may endanger the health of inmates and cause riots. The Conner Correctional Center in Hominy Oklahoma had a riot due to overcrowding, leaving...