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Article: PRISON POPULATION BOOMING INMATES IN COLORADO INCREASING SIX TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2001
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Byline: Dick Foster News Southern Bureau
Colorado's state prison population grew nearly six times faster than the national average last year, another effect of the state's population boom, prison officials say.
U.S. Census figures reported last week showed a 30.5 percent population growth in Colorado in the last 10 years - more than a million people - and those figures are considered one significant cause of the state's fast-growing prison population.
Colorado had 16,319 people in state prisons at the end of last June, more than double the 7,398 inmates the state had in 1990.
The June 2000 figure was an 8.5 percent increase - 1,274 more ...