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Prison Population Up, Escapes Down
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1992, page 4
According to a poll conducted by Corrections Compendium magazine, there were fewer escapes in 1990 than in 1989. In 1989, there were 7,816 escapes reported from 48 states (1.33%). In 1990, those same systems reported 7,244 escapes (1.11%) - a decrease of 572 at a time when prison populations were …
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Escapes,
Crime,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
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