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Offenders Admitted to Adult Correctional Institutions, Calendar Year 1979

NCJ Number
69982
Author(s)
S M Puckett
Date Published
1980
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistics about characteristics of offenders admitted to adult correctional institutions in Wisconsin for the calendar year 1979.
Abstract
About 80 percent of all admissions were first admissions, representing 1,248 offenders. Males represented 93.9 percent of those first admitted (1,172), while 6.1 percent were females (76 persons). Adult felony commitments constituted 98.5 percent of the first admissions and 96.4 percent of the readmissions. Burglary was the most common offense category for first and readmitted men, while forgery was the most common offense among women. Sentences of less than 2 years were received by 15.1 percent of total first admissions; 2 or less than 3 years sentences were received by 25.4 percent; 3 or less than 4 years sentences by 20.7 percent of first offenders. The median sentence was 35.9 months for all first offenders. Over 77 percent of the first admissions entered guilty pleas. The average (mean) age for first admissions was 25.1 for men and 27.1 for women. A majority of both first admissions and readmissions were white. The report contains 16 tables, some of which are footnoted. (Author abstract modified)