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US leads world in prison inmate numbers: NYT

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] US prisons currently house the world's largest inmate population, according to a Wednesday New York Times report [text] citing data provided by the International Center for Prison Studies [organization website]. The US currently holds 2.3 million inmates, far more than second-in-line China [JURIST news archive], which holds only 1.6 million inmates even though its population is four

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