# Kefauver Part 2, Exhibit 13: Bureau of Prisons chart, "Percentage of Repeaters," fiscal year 1949

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A Bureau of Prisons bar chart of the share of first offenders and repeaters among federal prisoners committed for more than a year in fiscal 1949, by offense, put in the record by Director James V. Bennett.

Exhibit No. 13 is printed at page 252 of Part 2. James V. Bennett, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, introduced it while testifying, saying it "shows that as a whole some 60 percent of the men who are committed to Federal institutions have previously been convicted of some State or Federal offense" (printed page 55). The session headed on the scan is June 23, 1950. The contents call it a "Chart furnished by James V. Bennett, entitled 'Percentage of Repeaters.'"

The chart is titled "Percentage of repeaters among prisoners committed to Federal institutions under sentence of more than 1 year for selected offenses, fiscal year ended June 30, 1949." For each offense, from income tax and embezzlement to narcotic drugs, forgery and the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, it gives the number of commitments and a bar divided between first offenders and repeaters. Bars for "other offenses" and "all offenses" close it.

This is a hearing exhibit and a work of a federal agency. It names no person.

## Sources

- Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy): https://archive.org/details/investigationofo02unit
- Full text of the volume (Internet Archive, OCR): https://archive.org/download/investigationofo02unit/investigationofo02unit_djvu.txt