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Offenders in New Jersey Correctional Institutions on December 31, 1988 by Selected Characteristics, Annual Report

NCJ Number
122911
Date Published
1989
Length
54 pages
Annotation
This document provides information regarding selected offender characteristics in each correctional complex, major institution, satellite housing unit, and halfway house under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections (New Jersey).
Abstract
The selected characteristics compiled in this report are base offense at admission, total term at admission, ethnicity, age, county of commitment, and mandatory minimum terms. Sixty-one percent of all offenders were committed for crimes against persons, which include homicide, sexual assault, assault, robbery, sodomy, sexual abuse, and other person offenses.