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U.S. Department of Justice Releases Statistics on Jail Prisoners at Midyear 2010

Loaded on March 15, 2012 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News March, 2012, page 22
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Statistics/Trends. Location: United States of America.
by Matt Clarke

In April 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a statistical report on the nation’s city and county jail population for the twelve-month period ending June 30, 2010. The report noted this was only the second year in which the ...

 

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