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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