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Thursday, December 10, 2009

U.S. prison population growing at slower rate, report says

The Bureau of Justice Statistics says that America's prison population grew 0.8 percent in 2008 -- which isn't considering it's averaged out at 1.8 percent over the past decade. In the 1990s, the growth rate was about 6.5 percent. More here.

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