The unit is for inmates whose safety would be endangered in a general population prison yard, and it still functions like such a yard, she said.
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Jurors selected are supposed to represent a cross-section of the general population in order to promote a fair trial.
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Terrorism suspects or other defendants who might be considered at risk or a risk to others in the general population are typically housed in a section of the facility known as the Special Housing Unit, or SHU. Defendants in that section are housed one or two per cell and mostly confined to their cells, except for limited exercise periods each day.
But this produced mixed results, with one state showing a statistically significant decline in general population mortality risk associated with the Medicaid expansion, while another showed a statistically significant increase in mortality risk and the third showing no statistically significant change.
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That compares with a prevalence of 4 percent for the general U.S. population, according to a 2005 study in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Both Obama and Romney are scheduled to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials annual conference later this week in Florida, a key general election battleground state with a large Hispanic population.
Unlike the previous study that was more heavily weighted with minority participants and a wider range of education level, the ACS study population was more white and more likely to have a higher education level than the general population.
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This compares with a figure of just 2.6% in a similar survey of the general population.
Goldberg cites evidence from Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA, that concealed-carry permit holders actually commit crimes at a lower rate than the general population.
Research shows that there are lower exercise rates among cancer patients than among the general population, a problem often exacerbated by oncologists who urge their patients to take it easy.
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Historically, men who get a diagnosis of prostate cancer have been nearly twice as likely to kill themselves and more likely to die of heart-related causes soon after their diagnosis compared with men in the general population, a study has found.
But this latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM-5, will only make a bad situation worse because it will lower many diagnostic thresholds and increase the number of people in the general population seen as having a mental illness.
One runs a risk when separating groups of people out of the general population, and I see this when I publish a book or curate an exhibit on women.
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D, patent, publication, university tenure and even a higher income compared to the general population.
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One early-warning system: inserting rodents with depressed immune systems (known as "nude sentinels, " because they happen to be a hairless breed) into the general population of rodents--canaries in the coal mine, if you will.
Third, researchers have focused on so-called gene-environment interactions, reasoning that some exposures that have relatively weak associations with breast cancer in the general population may have a much stronger effect in subgroups with a specific genetic make-up.
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Advocates of a repeal say Connecticut's current law keeps inmates on death row for extended periods of time, who are often engaged in multiple appeals, and presents taxpayers with far larger costs than if the convict were placed in the general prison population serving a life sentence.
California proposed putting more inmates on firefighting crews and into space leased from county jails to help meet a court-mandated requirement that it reduce its state-prison population, in a plan California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed Thursday night.
As a result, it is a mistake to look at the property markets in those major population centers and draw general conclusions about the country as a whole.
The Pew Center found that Asian-Americans have a significantly higher median income than the general population.
Increasing the folic acid intake of the general population would prevent between a third and two-thirds of these.
Truth be told, most Facebook users won't give a hoot, the same way that the flurry over the Beacon advertising program in late 2007 was fueled by a few vocal privacy advocates while the general population didn't seem to care about it one way or the other.
According to Prof Orford, problem gambling is associated with a higher suicide rate than that of the general population.
Fortunately, this not the only study to explore the potential for reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer in the general population by promoting adherence to a set of health guidelines.
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In a perfect world, the government, media and general population all communicate such that the issues most important to the population receive the most attention from the media and politicians.
The success of the all-volunteer force in replacing the draft with a superb fighting force has transformed the armed services into a cohort of highly skilled warriors about whom the general population knows little, and to whom it is not as tied as has historically been the case.
We know that this population, in general terms, is a less educated group.
But this raises the question of how big of a problem is this ratio and our aging population in general.
The zoo stressed that all animals are kept in quarantine as a precautionary measure before being allowed to enter the general zoo population.
If a drug turns out to be too risky for the general population, then the FDA could restrict its use or require stronger labels.
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