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One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008

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That's the title of a new report issued by the Pew Center on the States,  The full report is here.  This is from the beginning of the Executive Summary:Three decades of growth in America?s prison population has quietly nudged the nation across a sobering threshold: for the first time, more than one in every 100 adults is now confined in an American jail or prison. According to figures gathered and analyzed by the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, the number of people behind bars in the United States continued to climb in 2007, saddling cash-strapped states with soaring costs they can ill afford and failing to have a clear impact either on recidivism or overall crime.  For some groups, the incarceration numbers are especially startling...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).