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Charting a New Justice Reinvestment
Loaded on June 15, 2013
by Nicole D. Porter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2013, page 21
by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Parole,
News,
State Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per 100,000 population. Today the crime rate is slightly lower ...
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