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Article: U.S. Department of Justice: The Nation's Prison Population Continues Its Slow Growth; Up 1.9 Percent in 2004
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- October 23, 2005
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The number of prisoners in
the United States rose 1.9 percent during 2004, the Department of
Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This
was lower than the average annual rate of growth during the last
decade (3.2 percent) and just below the growth rate in 2003 (2.0
percent).
The number of inmates under state jurisdiction increased by 20,759
(1.6 percent) and the number under federal jurisdiction by 7,269 (4.2
percent). The total increase in the number of inmates in 2004 was
nearly identical to 2003 and about 8,000 fewer than in 2002.
As of Dec. 31, 2004, there were 2,267,787 people behind bars in
the United States, of which ...