- As of 2008, approximately 14,000 people are locked up for drug offenses in New York State prisons, representing nearly 38% of the prison population costing tax payers on average $761 million yearly.
- Some 80,000 children in New York State had at least one parent in prison.
- Low-level drug offenders who are in need of treatment are jailed.
- According to New York State criminal justice department statistics, 80 percent of drug offenders sentenced to prison in 1997 had never been convicted of a violent felony, and nearly half had never been arrested for a violent crime.
- About 80% of big companies in the U.S. now do perform background checks, up from 56% in 1996.
- Large companies in the U.S. that check all job applicants' backgrounds for criminal records include: Wal-Mart* General Motors* Ford Motor* General Electric* Citigroup* International Business Machines* American International Gr
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