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    Wisconsin Lawyer
    October 01, 1998

    Wisconsin Lawyer October 1998: Figuratively Speaking

     


    Vol. 71, No. 10, October 1998

    Figuratively Speaking

    Number of sexual harassment complaints handled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1991:

    6,127

    Value of settlements reached that year:

    $7.7 million

    Number of sexual harassment complaints handled by the EEOC in 1997:

    15,889

    Value of settlements reached in 1997:

    $49.4 million

    Source: The Economist, Feb. 14, 1998


    Americans who spend some part of their life in prison, according to a U.S. Justice Department survey:

    5.1%

    American males who spend some time in prison:

    9%

    Women who spend time in prison:

    1.1%

    Source: Business Week, No. 3539, Aug. 11, 1997


    Number of new 1,000-inmate prisons that would need to open each week to adequately house burgeoning numbers of prisoners since the 1970s:

    2

    Annual cost of locking up an inmate, according to a study conducted for the National Institute of Justice:

    $45,000

    Source: Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, January 1997


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