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BOP Decrease Drives 1% Drop in National Prisoner Population

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the U.S. prisoner count in 2014 was 1,561,500, down 1%, or 15,400, from the 2014 figure. Over a third of that modest decrease came about as a result of a decrease of 5,300 prisoners in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in ...

 

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