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: The Sentencing Project

Read News: New Prison and Jail Figures Show Record Incarceration, Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports

By The Sentencing Project

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The U.S. prison and jail population has reached a record high exceeding 2.3 million people, according to a new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. An analysis of the new data by The Sentencing Project finds broad variation in incarceration trends throughout the nation. While the overall state prison population rose by 12.8% from 2000-2008, individual state trends range from an increase of 59.7% in Minnesota to a decline of 12% in New York during this period. Posted Date:4/1/2009 1:48:39 AM

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).

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