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Minnesota Index: Crime and Punishment

Number of crimes committed in Minnesota in 2014         137,182

                Percent decrease from 2013       4.4

Percent of crimes that were property, violent    91, 9

Combined number of murders, forcible rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults and human trafficking offenses in 2014                12,352

                Percent decrease in violent crimes          1.2

Commercial sex acts reported in 2014, first year of statewide reporting for this crime      35

Combined number of burglaries, larcenies, motor vehicle thefts and arsons reported in 2014      124,868

                Percent decrease from 2013       4.8

Adult state inmate population as of Jan. 1, 2016, excluding short-term offenders              10,105

                Percent that are male    92.8

Total state inmates on Jan. 1, 2008           9,270

                On Jan. 1, 2003  7,073

Percent of Jan. 1, 2016 inmates who are white, black, American Indian 52.3, 35.6, 9.3

                Percentages on Jan. 1, 2008        56.6, 33.1, 8.0

                Percentages on Jan. 1, 2002        54.5, 36.5, 6.4

Number of lifers — prisoners sentenced to serve a 30-year term with the possibility of parole after that time and those sentenced without parole possibility— on Jan. 1, 2016        629

                Number that aren’t Minnesotans             38

Number of lifers in state facilities in 2008, including non-Minnesotans     593

                Number in 2003, including non-Minnesotans      393

Average age of a Minnesota prisoner at the start of 2016, 2008, 2003       36.9, 35.6, 33.9

Percent of inmates incarcerated, as of Jan. 1, 2016, for criminal sexual misconduct            16.9

                Percentages at the start of 2008, 2003    17.9, 17.4

Percent of inmates incarcerated, as of Jan. 1, 2016, whose governing offense is drugs    18.9

                Percentages at the start of 2008, 2003    20.4, 21.0

Department of Corrections operational budget for Fiscal Year 2016, in millions    $527.01

                Millions in Fiscal Year 2008            $459.9

Percent, as estimate, of state inmates diagnosed as chemically abusive or dependent    85

                Estimated number of offenders assessed as needing substance abuse treatment each year        8,500

Offenders who entered a Corrections Department long-term treatment program in 2015, 2014 1,401, 1,200

                Percent that successfully completed treatment in 2015, 2014      74.6, 76.7

Number of long-term treatment beds in the state prison system              991

                Cost, in millions, to the department per 100 primary treatment beds       $1.3

Estimated number of offenders enrolled in an education program on a given day             2,400

                Career technical certificates awarded in 2015      613

Applications for pardons extraordinary received by the Board of Pardons in 2015              39

                Pardons granted              18

Minutes it took William Williams to die in 1906 after his neck was stretched and his feet touched the floor, before deputies pulled the rope upward causing his death by strangulation        14

                State executions since   0

 

Sources: 2014 Uniform Crime Report, Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (July 2015); Department of Corrections, including Sex Offender Treatment in Prison (April 2015), Education Fact Sheet (January 2016), Chemical Dependency Treatment Services in Prison Fact Sheet (January 2016); and adult inmate profiles on Jan. 1, 2016, Jan. 1, 2008, Jan. 1, 2003, and Jan. 1, 2002; Board of Pardons Annual Report to the Legislature 2015 Activity


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