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Black prison population in Iowa could grow--now 2% of population and 24 % of prisoners
Black prison population in Iowa could grow By MIKE GLOVER | Associated Press Writer May 14, 2009 Chicago Tribune DES MOINES, Iowa - Blacks continue to be incarcerated in Iowa prisons at a number far out of proporation to their...

U.N. Population Agency Receives $50 Million in Taxpayer Money, Despite Its Involvement in China Where Government?s Population Control is Coercive
CNSNews: "The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) received $50 million from the United States government this year, despite its involvement in China, where the government's population program, according to the U...

For purposes of equally apportioning congressional representation, must congressional districts have the same total population or some different population that produces the same number of votes cast in each district?
For purposes of equally apportioning congressional representation, must congressional districts have the same total population -- the number of residents within each district -- or some different population that produces the same number of votes cast in each district? After identifying an interesting choice between two conceptions of democratic equality, "electoral equality" and "equal representation," a ruling that the U...

Civilized Countries Look Down On U.S., Whose Prison Population Dwarfs Other Nations - U.S. Prisons Overflowing With Non-Violent Offenders With Lengthy Sentences, Many Of Who Committed Victimless Crimes - Less Than 5% Of World’s Population, But Nearly 25% Of Worlds Prisoners - Our Tax Dollars At Work
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners...

A Gay Population Explosion?
by Paul VarnellFirst published in the Chicago Free Press on November 14, 2007 The Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law is one of our community's most important think tanks, producing high-quality studies on sexual orientation and public policy...

U.S. Prison Population
Cooter and I have remarked, in the fifth edition of our text, on the fact that the U.S. prison population increased four-fold from 1980 to 2002 -- from 500,000 to 2 million...