Sentences with phrase «adult arrestees»

While Colorado's population was 4 percent black in 2008 - 2009, the composition of adult arrestees during that period was 11.8 percent black, admissions to the Department of Corrections were 19 percent black, and the number of people sent back from parole with a new crime was 24.7 percent black.

But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) notes that other measures, such as pretrial urine samples from defendants accused of crimes, show that drug use, at least in the D.C. area, has gone down slightly — only 29 percent of adult arrestees had traces of cocaine in their urine in the first six months of 2009, the lowest level since 1985.