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Article: The nation's prison population growth rate slows.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-10 August 2000-US DEPT OF JUSTICE: The nation's prison population growth rate slows (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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WASHINGTON, D.C. During 1999, the nation's prison population rose at the lowest rate since 1979 and recorded the smallest absolute increase since 1988, according to a bulletin released today by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The prison population growth slowed to 3.4 percent last year -- less than the average annual amount of 6.5 percent during the 1990-1999 period.

At the end of the year, there were more than 2 million people held in some type of incarceration. The 2,026,596 people ...

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