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Prison Population Statistics Available
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 5
The annual BJS report on prison populations was released on Dec. 3, 1995. The number of state and federal prisoners grew by 89,707 during the 12 months ending June 30, 1995. It was the largest one-year population increase ever recorded in the U.S. The state prison population grew by 9.1 ...
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