LA Has Highest Incarceration Rate per Capita

The Advertiser reports that a federal Bureau of Justice report released last month indicates that Louisiana has the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation--794 inmates per 100,000 residents. "By contrast, in the 1970s Louisiana had an average rate of confinement of 110 inmates per 100,000 residents," according to Burke Foster a UL Lafayette criminal justice associate professor.

Posted by AJR at August 5, 2003 08:29 AM