Variables examined include medical status, mental health status, formal education, educational level, age, race, rural or urban sentencing county, marital status, family ties, work skills, religious preference, public and institutional risk ratings, current offense, and sentence length. PCs are found to have more deficient ratings than non-PCs among all social, medical, and psychological indicators. Some indices (age, sex offenses) follow stereotypical patterns; unexpected findings include longer PC sentence length, and PC over-representation among inmates convicted of violent crimes, notably homicide. (Author abstract)