PRISONERS

• V.I. criminals, on average, serve less than half their sentences in prison.
• 74 percent of prison inmates, including juveniles, have previous arrests or convictions.
• The average age of adult inmates is 32; the average age of juvenile inmates is 16.
• The Virgin Islands sends few women or girls to prison. The adult prison population is 97 percent male; the juvenile prison population is 84 percent male.
• The Virgin Islands also sends few white people to prison; 3 percent of adult prisoners are white, Asian, Indian or other.
• Most V.I. prisoners are educationally deficient; 93 percent of adult prisoners don't have a high school diploma and 32 percent of the juvenile inmates (ages 13-18) had dropped out of school at the time of their arrests.

DOING TIME

A day at Golden Grove:

6 a.m. -- Wake-up call.

6:30 to 7 -- Breakfast.

7:15 -- Return to dormitories for housekeeping.

8:15 to 8:30 -- Recreation or duty assignment.

11 to noon -- Lunch.

12:15 p.m. -- Report to recreation or duty assignment.

3:30 -- Return to dorm for head count, then recreation or educational programs.

5 to 6 -- Visits from AA, Narcotics Anonymous, churches.

6:15 -- Return to dorms to play dominoes and cards, write letters, read.

10 -- Lock-down. Lights out, cells closed.