Wednesday, July 31, 2002

1% Increase in U.S. Inmates Is Lowest Rate in 3 Decades
In the last six months of 2001, the number of state prison inmates actually fell by 3,700, the report said.

Altogether, there were 2.1 million Americans in state and federal prisons or in local jails at the end of 2001, the report said.

The small rise in the number of inmates for the whole year, only 1.1 percent, comes at a time when crime began to grow again, after a decade of declining. But criminal justice experts said there was no contradiction between the two trends.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/national/31PRIS.html

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