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U.S. Prison and Jail Population Continues Meteoric Rise

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2007 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News November, 2007, page 28
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends, Overcrowding. Location: United States of America.

It?s beginning to sound a bit repetitive, but the nation?s prison population continues to grow exponentially. At midyear 2006, U.S. prisons and jails held 2,245,189 persons?a 2.8% increase over the previous year, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report released in June 2007.

Put another way, on June ...

 

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