1996 PRISON ADMISSIONS FOR NORTH CAROLINA NOTE: The DOC statistics are taken from the 1996 Calender Year Annual Statistical Report (numbers are as of December 31, 1996). The Triangle: LINC total NC DOC total Chatham County 65 73 Durham County 495 592 Franklin County 136 169 Johnston County 244 303 Orange County 196 233 Wake County 1,033 1,346 Top Ten Counties in NC: 1 MECKLENBURG COUNTY 1,131 2 WAKE COUNTY 1,033 3 GUILFORD COUNTY 852 4 CUMBERLAND COUNTY 688 5 FORSYTH COUNTY 645 6 ALAMANCE COUNTY 578 7 NEW HANOVER COUNTY 552 8 DURHAM COUNTY 495 9 IREDELL COUNTY 436 10 DAVIDSON COUNTY 428 NORTH CAROLINA (LINC total) 18,921 (NC Dept. of Correction total AS OF 12/31/96) 22,106* *NOTE: The N.C. Department of Correction total includes the same elements that make up the LINC figures, in addition to admissions for the following: parole revocations, escapee captures and ICC (Interstate Correctional Compact) prisoners (an exchange program that allows prisoners from other states to be housed in our prisons.) The number of parole violators makes up most of the difference between these two figures. ********************************** More information is available on LINC. LINC VARIABLE #137 PRISON ADMISSIONS: Prison admissions. Total commitments to the state prison system during the calendar year by county of conviction (i.e., county ordering imprisonment). Included are new admissions and probation revocations. Re-entries by capture and parole revocation are excluded. As of 1980, new admissions include "unsentenced" inmates, that is, presentence diagnostic cases and safekeepers. If the prisoner was already under parole supervision at the time he reappears in prison, he is not counted as a "new admission" for his reappearance (presumably for a parole revocation), even if he is being given a new sentence. Instead, he will be counted as a "re-entry". If a prisoner is released from prison upon successful appeal of his conviction and is again sentenced to prison upon reconviction, he will appear twice as a new admission for the same crime(s). The same is true for presentence diagnostic cases and safekeepers if they return to prison after sentencing. The state total includes persons with incomplete county of conviction information. Earliest year: 1970 Latest year: 1996 Frequency: Annual Time period: Calendar year Geographic coverage: County and state ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: LINC and both the Annual Statistical Report, Fiscal Year 1995-96 and The Research Bulletin, published by the Department of Correction, Office of Research and Planning. Complete figures for 1997 will be available in summer 1998. Contacts at the Office of Research and Planning are Teresa J. Romano, clerk, and Tom Sutton, statistician, at 715-5340. NOTE: Additional historical and 1995 information is available in the vertical files and in the Statistical Report located in the bookstacks in NRD. LAST UPDATED: July 14, 1997 perickso@nando.com