prisoner-personal-visits

MN DOC pisoner visiting

FL DOC prisoner visiting

MN DOC extract table 1


1	Statistics on in-person visits with prisoners in Minnesota prisons
2	(based on 16,420 prisoners released between 2003 and 2007)
3	For related discussion, see
4	http://purplemotes.net/2012/10/07/prisoners-personal-visits/
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6					source and notes
7	ave. length of incarceration (months)		20		Duwe and Clark (2011) p. 18, and Table 1, p. 19.
8	ave. visits per prisoner		36		For additional data, see MN DOC extract table 1
9	different individuals visiting		3
10					prisoner sample includes both original sentences and parole violators
11					visits are measured across full term of incarceration
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13	visitor category	prisoner share receiving at least one visit from visitor category	ave. visits per month	standard deviation of visits per month
14	Friend	47%	0.535	1.336
15	Mother	31%	0.217	0.651
16	Sibling	26%	0.110	0.422
17	Son or daughter	19%	0.146	0.599
18	Other relative	18%	0.060	0.279
19	Father	16%	0.104	0.451
20	Spouse	8%	0.125	0.769
21	In-law	7%	0.020	0.169
22	Grandparent	7%	0.025	0.177
23	Other parent/guardian	5%	0.020	0.158
24	Clergy	2%	0.005	0.068
25	Ex-spouse	1%	0.007	0.131
26	Grandchildren	1%	0.005	0.082
27	Mentor	1%	0.004	0.054
28	Other	1%	0.003	0.076
29	Other professional	0%	0.001	0.016
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31	all visitors	61%	1.773	3.696
32	among receiving visits		2.907


1	Extract of descriptive statistics from Duwe and Clark (2011) Table 1
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6			any visit		total number		per month		recent
7	lid		mean	standard deviation	mean	standard deviation	mean	standard deviation	mean	standard deviation	notes
8	1	Visitation measure	0.61	0.487	35.72	88.044	1.773	3.696	0.449	0.88	The column "recent" reports the Recency Score. A recency value is a date of visit indicator proportionally scaled from 0 (date of incarceration) to 1 (date of release).
9	2	Spouse	0.08	0.266	2.67	19.576	0.125	0.769	0.061	0.397	The recency value for each visit is summed and the total divided by the number of months of imprisonment to the get the Recency Score. Id. p. 13.
10	3	Ex-spouse	0.01	0.115	0.13	3.037	0.007	0.131	0.004	0.073	That latter normalization doesn't make a lot of sense. It means that the Recency Score rises with the number of visits, even each visits occurs at
11	4	Son or daughter	0.19	0.393	2.9	13.195	0.146	0.599	0.074	0.311	the same relative position in the spell of incarceration.
12	5	Mother	0.31	0.463	4.26	14.023	0.217	0.651	0.109	0.333
13	6	Father	0.16	0.367	2.02	9.401	0.104	0.451	0.053	0.234
14	7	Other parent/guardian	0.05	0.227	0.41	3.379	0.02	0.158	0.01	0.083
15	8	Sibling	0.26	0.439	2.5	10.701	0.11	0.422	0.057	0.226
16	9	In-law	0.07	0.259	0.42	3.051	0.02	0.169	0.01	0.092
17	10	Other relative	0.18	0.382	1.34	6.736	0.06	0.279	0.032	0.149
18	11	Grandparent	0.07	0.252	0.5	4.122	0.025	0.177	0.013	0.095
19	12	Grandchildren	0.01	0.114	0.14	2.991	0.005	0.082	0.003	0.04
20	13	Friend	0.47	0.499	9.96	27.427	0.535	1.336	0.274	0.705
21	14	Clergy	0.02	0.131	0.12	2.021	0.005	0.068	0.003	0.042
22	15	Mentor	0.01	0.1	0.14	2.179	0.004	0.054	0.003	0.039
23	16	Other professional	0	0.061	0.01	0.287	0.001	0.016	0	0.012
24	17	Other	0.01	0.091	0.07	1.652	0.003	0.076	0.002	0.042

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1	Statistics on in-person visits with prisoners in Florida prisons during year before prisoner's release
2	(based on 7,000 prisoners released between Nov. 2001 and Mar. 2002 and who were imprisoned for at least 12 months)
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6	visitor category	prisoner share receiving at least one visit from visitor category in past 12 months	ave. visits per month		source and notes
7	Parent	27%	0.197		Bales and Mears (2008) p. 300, Table 1
8	Relative	22%	0.095		Prisoner visits counted across 12 months before release.
9	Friend	12%	0.063		Prisoner visits have been top-coded at 12 (id. p. 301)
10	Significant other	8%	0.081		Prisoners receiving 13 or more visits accounted for 11.3% of the sample.
11	Child	6%	0.022
12	Spouse	5%	0.055
13	Other person	1%	0.033
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15	any visitor category	42%	0.357
16	sum of visitor categories		0.545		Discrepancy in ave. visit total plausibly is a result of the top-coding.
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21	Raw source extract:
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23	Visitation within 12 months of release from prison
24	Whether visited (0 = no, 1 = yes) .42 .49
25	Number of times visited (among all inmates) 4.28 9.57
26	Number of times visited (among inmates who were visited) 10.21 12.58
27	Visited by		mean	standardard deviation
28	Parent (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.27	0.44
29	Spouse (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.05	0.21
30	Significant other (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.08	0.28
31	Child (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.06	0.23
32	Relative (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.22	0.41
33	Friend (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.12	0.32
34	Other person (0 = no, 1 = yes		0.01	0.1
35	Number of times visited by
36	Parent	2.36	7.22
37	Spouse	0.66	4.48
38	Significant other	0.97	5.38
39	Child	0.26	1.74
40	Relative	1.14	3.72
41	Friend	0.76	3.73
42	Other person	0.39	0.73
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45	visitor category	visited	ave. visits
46	Parent	0.27	2.36
47	Relative	0.22	1.14
48	Friend	0.12	0.76
49	Significant other	0.08	0.97
50	Child	0.06	0.26
51	Spouse	0.05	0.66
52	Other person	0.01	0.39
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54	any visitor category	0.42	4.280