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New "official" record high in US incarceration population

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this ABC News report, prison nation continues to grow: "The Justice Department has released a new report showing the nation's prison and jail population reached a record 2.3 million people last year."  As regular readers know, the "United States leads the industrialized world in incarceration [with a] rate of incarceration (762 per 100,000) [that] is five to eight times that of other highly developed countries, according to The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice think tank." The official press release from BJS provides this explanation of what the latest official data shows:The growth in the number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction slowed during the first six months of 2007, the Justice Department?s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).