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Article: Prison population up 4.7%
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 7, 1987
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WASHINGTON Prison population grew 4.7 percent in the first half
of 1987 as a record 570,519 inmates jammed state and federal
correctional facilities, a Justice Department agency reported Sunday.
Prison officials were forced to add about 1,000 new beds a week
to keep up with the influx of 25,386 prisoners, a 7.8 percent
increase in the West, 2.5 percent in the South, 4.6 percent in the
Midwest and 5.1 percent in the Northeast, said the Bureau of Justice
Statistics.
Prison populations ranged from a low of 441 inmates in North
Dakota to a high of 64,737 in California.
The federal prison population rose 7.3 percent in the six months
ending June 30, to 47,653. The ...