Reference no: EM133427425
Questions: Find: "News and Info" on the line near the top. Click on "Research and Data Analytics," then "Data Analytics." Click on "Agency Fact Card." (Make sure you are looking at the Fact Card dated December 31, 2021!) Answer these questions:
1. How many prison facilities are in Washington State?
2. What is the total number of offenders in confinement?
3. What percentage is male?
4. What percentage is black?
5. What is the average age?
6. Which offense has the highest percentage of offenders?
7. What percentage are serving life sentences? (add the numbers for with chance of parole or release and without release to come up with the correct number.)
8. What is the average length of stay for offenders released in the past year?
9. What percent have returned back to institutions after being released in 2015?
Facts about Individuals Supervised in the Community
10. What is the total number of offenders on active supervision in the community?
11. What percentage are rated High Risk to Reoffend? (add the percentages for HVPD, HV, HP, and HD to come up with the total number.)
12. Which offense has the highest percentage of offenders?
Now go back to "Data Analytics" and click on "Cost per Incarceration per Day."
13. What is the cost of an individual/day in a major institution?
14. Multiply that cost per day by the total number of inmates in confinement (#2 above), and then multiply that by 365 days. What is the cost per year?
15. Does that cost surprise you? Why or why not?
16. What are the costs other than financial costs ($$) of locking up that many people? Explain.