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Prison Population Growth in 1995

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News February, 1997, page 17
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, Prison and Jail Inmates, 1995, an estimated 1,585,400 persons were incarcerated in the U.S. at year end 1995. The state and federal prison population topped a million (1,078,357) with an additional 507,044 in local jails.

The nation's prison population grew by 72,059 ...

 

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