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Jail Populations Up 54% in 5 Years
Loaded on June 15, 1990
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1990, page 9
Jail Populations Up 54% In 5 Years In a special report "Population Density in Local Jails, 1988," the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recently announced that between 1983 and 1988, 5.3 million square feet of new housing space and 29,000 guards were added to jails throughout the …
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- Editorial Comments, by Ed Mead
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