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Prison Population Rises 12.1%
Loaded on July 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1990, page 1
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has issued its annual bulletin on prison populations. The report stated the number of state and federal prisoners in the U.S. grew by a record 76,099 prisoners during 1989. This figure now reaches a new high of 703, 687 men and women in the …
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Crime/Demographics,
Crime,
Statistics/Trends,
Overcrowding.
Location:
United States of America.
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