Inmates’ Survival Handbook: A Message to Prison Administrators, the Criminal Justice System, and the American Public

VAIL, Ariz., Jan. 14, 2009 — There are approximately 2.3 million inmates in state and federal prisons and county jails in the United States. At the end of 2007, of American men between the ages of 17-25 years, for every 100,000 African American men, 3,138 were imprisoned; for every 100,000 Hispanic…