NCJ Number
132879
Date Published
1991
Length
43 pages
Annotation
Selected characteristics including base offense at admission, total term at admission, ethnicity, age, county of commitment, and mandatory minimum term are used to describe the offender population in each correctional complex, major institution, and satellite housing unit under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Department of Corrections as of December 31, 1990.
Abstract
The results indicate that 52 percent of New Jersey inmates were committed for personal crimes including homicide, sexual assault, assault, robbery, and sexual abuse. Half of all Department of Corrections residents were committed with maximum statutory sentences exceeding 10 years. Sixty-three percent of the State's inmates were black, 21 percent were white, and 16 percent were Hispanic; half were under 29 years of age. Thirty percent of all inmates had been committed for drug law violations; over 90 percent of these were sale/distribution offenses.