Report Documents Increased Federal Prosecution; Arrests High in Border Districts
A press release from the Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics announced the release of a new report on arrests and prosecutions in the criminal justice system. It begins as follows:
FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ARRESTS SURPASS DRUG ARRESTS
Post-arrest, drug and weapons offenders most likely to be prosecuted and convicted
WASHINGTON -- Immigration and drug arrests comprised more than half of the 140,200 federal suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals in 2005, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Material witness (20 percent), immigration (15 percent) and weapons (11 percent) arrests increased at the fastest annual rate from 1995 to 2005. In 2005, immigration (27 percent) was the most prevalent arrest offense followed by drug (24 percent) and supervision violations (17 percent).
Forty percent of all suspects arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service were arrested in 1 of 5 federal judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border, including Arizona, New Mexico, the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, and the Southern District of California. Nearly 1 in 4 (23 percent) of all suspects arrested in 2005 were arrested in the Southern and Western Districts of Texas.
The full release is available at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/fjs05pr.htm
The report is available at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/fjs05.htm
FEDERAL IMMIGRATION ARRESTS SURPASS DRUG ARRESTS
Post-arrest, drug and weapons offenders most likely to be prosecuted and convicted
WASHINGTON -- Immigration and drug arrests comprised more than half of the 140,200 federal suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals in 2005, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Material witness (20 percent), immigration (15 percent) and weapons (11 percent) arrests increased at the fastest annual rate from 1995 to 2005. In 2005, immigration (27 percent) was the most prevalent arrest offense followed by drug (24 percent) and supervision violations (17 percent).
Forty percent of all suspects arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service were arrested in 1 of 5 federal judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border, including Arizona, New Mexico, the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, and the Southern District of California. Nearly 1 in 4 (23 percent) of all suspects arrested in 2005 were arrested in the Southern and Western Districts of Texas.
The full release is available at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/fjs05pr.htm
The report is available at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/fjs05.htm
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