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Exhibit No. 13, a horizontal bar chart 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", with a bar for each offense split between first offenders and repeaters.
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Kefauver Part 2, Exhibit 13: Bureau of Prisons chart, "Percentage of Repeaters," fiscal year 1949

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.

Date
1950-06-23
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings (Boston Public Library copy)
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Investigation of Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Hearings before the Special Committee, 81st Cong., Part 2: Federal Communications Commission, United States Post Office, Bureau of Prisons, United States Treasury, and other witnesses
Rights
A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States. 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright.

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.

itemKefauver Committee hearings, Part 2: Federal agencies and other witnesses (1950)Printed hearings of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, Part 2, Federal agencies and other witnesses: sessions in Washington, June to August 1950.itemKefauver Part 2, Exhibit 15: Bureau of Prisons graph of prisoners in state and federal prisons, 1939-1948A Bureau of Prisons line graph of prisoners present at year end and prisoners received from court in state and federal prisons and reformatories, 1939 to 1948, filed by Director James V. Bennett.