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Article: Prison population growth slows after 2-decade spike.(N)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2007
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Byline: N.C. AIZENMAN
By N.C. Aizenman
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON
After two decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six years of this century, according to 2006 census statistics .
At nearly 2.1 million, the number of adults in correctional institutions remains at an all-time high. Still, that figure represents a 4 percent rise since 2000 - nowhere near the 77 percent spike in the prison population from 1990 to 2000.
The data, from the yearly American Community Survey, represent the Census Bureau's first in-depth look at people in prisons since the 1980 census. ...