State of Research Funding From the National Institutes of Health for Criminal Justice Health Research

Tiffany Lemon; Anne Spaulding; Josiah D. Rich

doi:10.7326/L15-5116

Letters |4 August 2015

State of Research Funding From the National Institutes of Health for Criminal Justice Health Research

Tiffany Lemon, BS, cMSPH; Anne Spaulding, MD, MPH; Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH

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TO THE EDITOR:

We agree with Ahalt and colleagues (1) that the incarcerated population deserves more study. The authors note that 20 million Americans are now or have been incarcerated. We believe that this figure warrants closer scrutiny.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that approximately 101 million criminal records are on file in the United States (2). The National Employment Law Project issued a report in 2011, “65 Million ‘Need Not Apply': The Case for Reforming Criminal Background Checks for Employment,” that reduced the estimate of persons these records represent by one third to correct for persons who had multiple records across states (3), resulting in a conservative estimate that 65 to 70 million Americans have “rap sheets” (2). The Bureau of Justice Statistics also reports that 12 million Americans have fingerprints on state file (2); adjusting this number, we estimate that approximately 9 million unique sets of fingerprints are on file in the United States.

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