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The issue highlights offense-by-offense time-served averages, an inverse relationship between offense seriousness and served sentence percentage, and contributing factors such as good-behavior credit, parole timing, and pretrial jail credit. 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 \nPage 1  \nIN THIS ISSUE-               \nPRISON STAYS:Short Averages,BJS Finds......1VIRGINIA:Wardens Discuss Security..........2JUDGES:Asked To Exhaust Appeals.........3CRIME BILLS:Who Is To Blame?...........3BOX SCORE:Legislative Progress Round-Up......5JOB LISTINGS......................6REAGAN:Asks Prison Fund Cuts............6MICHIGAN:Consent Decree Reached.........7INDUSTRIES:A Task Force Report..........7TENNESSEE:Officers Killed In Crash.........9IN THE COURTS....................9  \nWhat's The Bulge,Ma'am,Uh,Sir?  \nA man dressed as a woman has been charged withtrying to carry a loaded .38-caliber pistol into astate prison facility in his bra.Melvin Otis Wright,  \n32,went to the Nashville,Tenn.Community Ser-vice Center,a work-release facility,recently to pickup his sister's boyfriend for a leave.Wright wasdressed in pantyhose,white skirt,red blouse andwig.  \nA female guard frisked him at a checkpoint andasked what the bulge was in his undergarment.\"They's my gun,\"said Wright,who handed overthe weapon.He was charged with carrying a loadedweapon on state property and posted $10,000bond.  \nWright,a nursing technician,said the femaleguard did not discover that he was a man duringher frisk.“I don't think they knew what was goingon,\"he said.Wright said he finally told the officersthat he was a man,and male guards were assignedto escort him away from the prison roadblock checkand strip-search him.  \n# CORRECTIONS DIGEST\n\nand aggravated assault,from 37.0 months to 17.4months.  \nAmong property crimes,the average timeserved ranged from 30.5 months to 13.8 monthsfor burglary,22.7 months to 6.5 months forlarceny,24.9 months to 9.4 months for arson,and  \n24.0 months to 10.4 months for drug offenses(including both sale and possession offenses).  \nAn Inverse Relationship  \nWhen comparing different offenses in the same state,the report said one trend appeared to be universal:Thereis an inverse relationship between the seriousness of theoffense and the percentage of the sentence that is served.  \n“That is,\"the report says,\"those who are imprisonedfor the most serious crimes(and therefore receive the longestsentences)serve the smallest percentage of their sentences.\"  \nIn examining the ratio between auto theft and crimi-nal homicide,the study found that the auto thief servesup to twice as large a percentage of his sentence as thehomicide offender.  \nThe report cited several factors that may contributeto this finding:  \nCredit for“good behavior”typically takes substan-tially more","cbCaihAMEeqKIbos","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihAMEeqKIbos","pdf",3063008,11,"English","# BJS Study Finds...\n## Prison stays: average time ranges\n## An inverse relationship between offense seriousness and served percentage\n# Virginia Officials Meet to Discuss Security Problems","[{\"question\":\"What does the BJS study say about average prison stays for convicted felons?\",\"answer\":\"It reports that average prison stays in 12 states ranged from about 1.5 to nearly 3 years for convicted felons sentenced to prison.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the report describe the relationship between offense seriousness and time served?\",\"answer\":\"The report states there is an inverse relationship: those imprisoned for the most serious crimes serve the smallest percentage of their sentences.\"},{\"question\":\"What triggered the Virginia officials’ emergency meeting?\",\"answer\":\"It followed two escapes from maximum-security prisons in less than a month, prompting a review of security at all state prisons.\"}]","Corrections Digest - Vol. 15 No. 14 - July 4, 1984 | PDF",1790725220,28]