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U.S. Prison and Jail Population On the Rise
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2023
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2023, page 57
A report published in June 2023 by the Vera Institute of Justice revealed that the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. has risen quickly from lows reached during the COVID-19 pandemic though it hasn’t yet reached pre-pandemic levels.
Between 2019 to mid-2020, America’s total jail and prison population decreased ...
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