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Department of Justice Report Shows Small Decrease in U.S. Prison Population
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2019
by Scott Grammer
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2019, page 56
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Statistics/Trends.
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United States of America.
by Scott Grammer
A report by Jennifer Bronson, Ph.D. and E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in April 2019, found that at the end of 2017, the state and federal prison population had decreased by 1.2 percent from the previous ...
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