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Article: Prison Population Hits 2 Million Mark
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 16, 2000
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The U.S. prison population reached the two million mark Tuesday,
according to a study by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington
research organization.
"This is the most punishing decade on record," Vincent Schiraldi,
the institute's executive director, was quoted by the International
Herald Tribune as saying Wednesday.
He said the nation's inmate population at the start of the 1990s
was one million, an unprecedented number at the time.
To double the number in just 10 years is to equal the growth of
the prison population during the previous 90 years, he said.
According to ...