WASHINGTON, May 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
PRINTS AMONG MEN
Profile America — Saturday, May 16th. The first criminal case in the U.S. in which fingerprint evidence alone won conviction occurred this month in New York City in 1911. Burglary suspect Caesar Cella, alias Charles Crispi, was undone by prints identified by detective Joseph Faurot. Just a few months earlier, a murder conviction was obtained in Chicago with the aid of fingerprint evidence. The first known crime case solved by fingerprint matching occurred in 1898 in India, but the unique pattern of each person's fingerprints had been known since ancient China. The Census Bureau's national prisoner statistics program reported to the Justice Department that at the end of 2013, there were 1,574,700 inmates in U.S. federal and state prisons. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 4163
Timeline: http://news.everestonline.edu/post/2011/07/history-of-fingerprinting/#.Uz8UdVP4j0kPeople%20v%20Crispi%201911
NYC Conviction: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/89849182
Fingerprints
Chicago case/page 1-17: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/225321.pdf
National Prisoner Statistics: http://www.census.gov/econ/overview/go3000.htmlhttp://www.census.gov/econ/overview/go3000.html
Prisoners: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=269
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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