8.13. Who Goes to Prison?

What is the typical minimum sentence length for individuals incarcerated in prisons in the United States?

According to the analysis in the text, what is the approximate total number of State Prisoners in the United States?

What percentage of State Prisoners are incarcerated for violent crimes?

What is the approximate number of federal prisoners mentioned in the text's breakdown of the total prison population?

What percentage of prisoners in the United States are male?

What is the approximate total number of prisoners in the United States when combining state, federal, private, territorial, and Indian Country facilities?

Besides violent crimes, which two categories of crime make up the next largest sections of the state prisoner population?

What is the primary difference between individuals who go to prison and individuals who go to jail?

How many prisoners are held in territorial prisons according to the data presented?

What is the approximate number of prisoners held in Indian Country facilities?

How does the percentage of male prisoners (93 percent) compare to the percentage of male jail inmates?

Based on the infographic in Chapter 8.13, approximately how many state prisoners are incarcerated for property crimes?

According to the infographic data, what is the approximate number of state prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes?

Within the category of violent crimes in state prisons, which offense accounts for the highest number of incarcerations, based on the infographic?

What is the approximate number of private sector prisoners in the United States?

Based on the infographic, how many state prisoners are incarcerated for burglary?

According to the infographic, what is the number of state prisoners incarcerated for drug trafficking?

What is the total number of state prisoners incarcerated for either murder or manslaughter, based on the infographic data?

How many more male prisoners are there as a percentage of the total prison population compared to male jail inmates?

Based on the data presented, the number of state prisoners for violent crimes (718,000) is greater than the combined total of which three other categories?

What is the approximate number of state prisoners incarcerated for assault?

The number of state prisoners incarcerated for public order crimes is approximately how many?

According to the text, what has happened to the total volume of prisoners in the last few years since 2015?

Within the category of property crimes in state prisons, which offense accounts for the fewest incarcerations among those specifically listed in the infographic?

Based on the infographic, the number of state prisoners for drug possession is approximately how many?

What is the combined number of state prisoners incarcerated for robbery and rape/sexual assault?

What percentage of the total state prison population of 1,316,000 is incarcerated for property crimes (237,000)?

How many state prisoners are incarcerated for weapons offenses, according to the infographic?

The number of state prisoners for murder (180,000) is exactly 1.5 times the number of prisoners for which other property crime?

What is the total number of state prisoners serving time for either larceny/theft or motor vehicle theft?

The chapter states that almost all people in U.S. prisons have been convicted of what level of crime?

Which single category of state prisoners has more individuals than the entire federal prisoner population of approximately 180,000?

What is the total number of individuals incarcerated for violent crimes in state prisons?

How many times larger is the state prison population for drug trafficking (128,000) compared to drug possession (46,000), approximately?

Based on the text, what is a notable item that is different between the prison and jail populations, aside from conviction level?

The total number of state prisoners incarcerated for murder (180,000) is larger than the total number of prisoners in which entire category?

What is the approximate number of individuals incarcerated for manslaughter in state prisons?

In the context of the total U.S. prison population of approximately 1,700,000, what proportion does the federal prison population (about 180,000) represent?

Which crime makes up a larger portion of the state prison population: drug trafficking or burglary?

What is the number of state prisoners incarcerated for DUI, according to the infographic?

How much of the total state prison population is accounted for by the combined categories of property and drug crimes?

According to the infographic, the number of state prisoners for robbery (174,000) is identical to the number for which other violent crime?

What is the primary theme of Chapter 8.13, 'Who Goes to Prison?'?

The total state prisoner population (1,316,000) is approximately how many times larger than the total federal prisoner population (180,000)?

If you sum the number of state prisoners for murder, robbery, and assault, what is the approximate total?

What does the text imply is the main distinction between prisoners and jail inmates regarding their legal status?

The combined population of territorial and Indian Country prisoners is larger than which single state prison crime sub-category?

What portion of the total state prison population is incarcerated for public order crimes (152,000)?

In Chapter 8.13, which is the only demographic characteristic explicitly discussed for the prison population?

How many more state prisoners are incarcerated for all property crimes (237,000) compared to all drug crimes (200,000)?