Download or read book Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1998 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bureau of Justice Statistics within the Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice presents the downloadable version in PDF format of the report by Darrell K. Gilliard entitled "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1998." The report provides statistics about the number of inmates in U.S. state and federal prisons and local jails at midyear 1998, the incarceration rate per 100,000 U.S. residents, the amount and percent of change for the year and for the previous 10 years, and the direction of the trends. The report originally appeared in the March 1999 issue of the "Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin."