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Endnotes

  1. The principal authors of this report were Dana Kaplan, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg.
  2. Beck, Allen J. Prisoners in 1999 (August 2000). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  3. Schiraldi, Vincent and Ziedenberg, Jason. (April 1999) The Punishing Decade: Prison and Jail Estimates at the Millenium. Washington, DC: The Justice Policy Institute.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Davis, Christopher, Estes, Richard and Schiraldi, Vincent. (1996) ³Three Strikes²: The New Apartheid. San Francisco, CA: Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
  6. Ambrosio, Tara Jen and Schiraldi, Vincent. (February 1997) Trading Classrooms for Cellblocks: A National Perspective. Washington, D.C.: The Justice Policy Institute.
  7. Schiraldi, Vincent, and Ziedenberg, Jason. The Florida Experiment: An Analysis of the Impact of Granting Prosecutors the Discretion to try juveniles as adults. (July 1999) Washington, DC: The Justice Policy Institute.
  8. Gangi, Robert, Schiraldi, Vincent and Ziedenberg, Jason. (December, 1998) New York State of Mind: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998. Washington, D.C.: The Justice Policy Institute.
  9. Ambrosio, Tara Jen and Schiraldi, Vincent. (February 1997) Trading Classrooms for Cellblocks: Destructive Policies Eroding D.C.ıs Communities. Washington, D.C.: Justice Policy Institute.
  10. Schiraldi, Vincent. Is Marylandıs System of Higher Education Suffering Because of Prison Expenditures? (March 1998) Washington DC: Justice Policy Institute.
  11. Beck, August 2000.
  12. National prison estimates from Beck, Allen. Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1999 (April 2000). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics; Texas prison population data from 1999 Statistical Year Report. (February 2000). Huntsville: Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
  13. See methodology.
  14. Beck, Allen. U.S. Correctional Population Reaches 6.3 million men and women. (July 2000) Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000.
  15. The Texas incarceration rate was calculated by adding the population of people housed in the Texas State Prisons, the Texas State Jails, the County Jail System, and the Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Program (SAFP), and dividing the Texas population (age 18 and older).
  16. International incarceration rates taken from Walmsley, Roy. World Prison Population List. London, UK: Home Office, Research, Development and Statistical Directorate, 1999.
  17. Current prison population from 1999 Fiscal Year Statistical Report (February 2000). Huntsville: Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
  18. Ward, Mike. ³Texas Prisons Officially Log Inmate Number 1,000,000.² The Austin American-Statesman, July 26, 2000.
  19. Walmsley, 1999. Offender Breakdown: August 31, Daily Maximum Population Reports for Fiscal Years 1988-1998. Huntsville: Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  20. Jennings, Diane. ³Growing Inmate Population has Lawmakers Scrambling for Solutions.² The Dallas Morning News, April 9, 2000.
  21. Prison Population by Offender Type, Fiscal Year 1988-1998. (September 1999) Austin: Criminal Justice Policy Council.
  22. See methodology.
  23. See methodology.
  24. Correctional Populations in the United States, 1996 (April 1999) Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000.
  25. Texas Department of Criminal Justice 1999 Fiscal Year Statistical Report.
  26. Beck, August 2000.
  27. Our Texas incarceration rate differs slightly with what was reported by BJS in April 2000 (1014), because we used TDCJ to calculate the true rate of 1035. To compare to other states, we will use the BJS incarceration rate calculated in mid-year 1999.

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