Article: Call for Scotland's prison population to be reduced

Article: NSW: NSW prison population expected to increase
AAP General News (Australia);  June 11, 2001 ;     417 words ......Australia) 06-11-2001 NSW: NSW prison population expected to increase By...SYDNEY, June 11 AAP - NSW's prison population is expected to increase...committee on the Increase in Prison Population. Mr Ryan, the committee...

Article: Prison population growth slows after 2-decade spike.(N)
The Virginian Pilot;  September 30, 2007 ;     686 words ......decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six...near the 77 percent spike in the prison population from 1990 to 2000. The data, from...The result was an explosion in the prison population even as crime rates began to drop...

Article: Prison population leveling off: ; Decreased popularity of crack cocaine, new policing strategies cited as causes for decline
Charleston Daily Mail;  October 1, 2007 ;     682 words ......decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six...near the 77 percent spike in the prison population from 1990 to 2000. The data, from...The result was an explosion in the prison population even as crime rates began to drop...

Article: US prison population largest in world: Justice Department
Xinhua News Agency;  October 24, 2005 ;     293 words ...US prison population largest in world: Justice Department...States has the world's largest prison population and the figure is still growing...US Justice Department, the US prison population, already the largest in the world...

Article: Prison Population Hits 2 Million Mark
Xinhua English Newswire;  February 16, 2000 ;     183 words ...The U.S. prison population reached the two million mark...to equal the growth of the prison population during the previous 90 years...California, home to the largest prison population. In Louisiana, the rate is...

Article: FED: Prison population grows by 8.7 per cent
AAP General News (Australia);  April 14, 1999 ;     462 words ......Australia) 04-14-1999 FED: Prison population grows by 8.7 per cent CANBERRA, April 14 AAP - Australia's prison population grew by 8.7 per cent last...a doubling of the state's prison population in the past five years, a...

Article: State prison population rises 2%
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 29, 2000 ;     149 words ...State prison population rises 2% Associated Press Friday...2000 Madison -- The Wisconsin prison population increased 2% this year, the...especially pleased that the prison population nearly leveled off in the last...

Article: NSW: Prison population expected to increase
AAP General News (Australia);  June 11, 2001 ;     173 words ......News (Australia) 06-11-2001 NSW: Prison population expected to increase A New South...be told tomorrow that the state's prison population is expected to increase almost 12...select committee on the Increase in Prison Population. Mr RYAN says they indicate the prison...

Article: NEW ZEALAND: JUSTICE MINISTER BURTON RELEASES PRISON POPULATION FORECAST 2005
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 7, 2006 ;     421 words ......Minister Mark Burton today released the Prison Population Forecast 2005. The report, which...forecasts a steady increase in the prison population between 2005 and 2010 at a higher...Acts, are in part reflected in the prison population figures. Four new prisons will become...

Article: PRISON POPULATION SWELLING.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 8, 1990 ;     196 words ......Press International The nation's prison population reached a record three-quarters of...largest annual growth in 65 years of prison population statistics, said Steven Dillingham...Department officials tie the rise in prison population to tougher judges and new sentencing...

Article: State prison population declines 2%.
Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE);  October 2, 2007 ;     644 words ......decades-long upward trend, Nebraska's prison population dropped 2 percent in fiscal 2007...be starting to whittle away at the prison population. But, they cautioned, it is too soon...declare a war on drugs. The state's prison population reached 4,447 inmates May 2006...

Article: Prison population declines in Illinois
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  April 15, 2002 ;     254 words ...SPRINGFIELD - The growth in the U.S. prison population has slowed in recent years, but the...as of April 5. Last year's rate of prison population increase nationwide - just 1 percent...driving the decades-long increase in prison population. As of June 30, 2001, one of every...

Article: Drugs increase Maine's prison population. (State to State).(Brief Article)
Corrections Compendium;  July 1, 2002 ;     223 words ......officials have, seen a surge in the prison population, the latest indication that Maine...frame. The increase in the state prison population comes after a decade of virtually...the lowest percentage increase of prison population of any state from 1990 to 2000, a...

Article: Prison Population Up 7.3% In Six Months, a Record
The Washington Post;  September 11, 1989 ;     190 words ...The nation's prison population jumped by a record 46,004 inmates...1981-82, when the national prison population grew by 41,060 inmates, from...said. The 7.3 percent surge in prison population during the first half of 1989...