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One 136 People Jail S - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 22nd May, 2006 - 12:40pm
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One In Every 136 People In Jail In U S?
This is so bizarre as to be unbelievable! How can so many people be in jail or prison? It boggles the mind.
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| By ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer. ... ..."The jail population is increasingly unconvicted," Beck said. "Judges are perhaps more reluctant to release people pretrial." The report by the Justice Department agency found that 62 percent of people in jails have not been convicted, meaning many of them are awaiting trial. Overall, 738 people were locked up for every 100,000 residents, compared with a rate of 725 at mid-2004. The states with the highest rates were Louisiana and Georgia, with more than 1 percent of their populations in prison or jail. Rounding out the top five were Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma. The states with the lowest rates were Maine, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Vermont and New Hampshire. Men were 10 times to 11 times more likely than women to be in prison or jail, but the number of women behind bars was growing at a faster rate, said Paige M. Harrison, the report's other author. |
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JAIL, PRISON POPULATIONS RISE 2.6 PERCENT
More than 1,000 inmates were added to the nation's prisons and jails each week from June 2004 to June 2005, according to a report issued Sunday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/21/incarcer...rate/index.html
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