Another Record Set in Prison Nation
By TChris, Section Inmates and Prisons
Posted on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 11:11:08 PM EST
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Posted on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 11:11:08 PM EST
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Prison Nation sets another record:
About one in every 31 adults in the United States was in prison, in jail or on supervised release at the end of last year, the Department of Justice reported yesterday. An estimated 2.38 million people were incarcerated in state and federal facilities, an increase of 2.8 percent over 2005, while a record 5 million people were on parole or probation, an increase of 1.8 percent.
The racial disparity that TalkLeft highlighted in this story is confirmed by the statistics:
In several states, incarceration rates for blacks were more than 10 times the rate of whites. In Iowa, for example, blacks were imprisoned at 13.6 times the rate of whites, according to an analysis of the data by the Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy group.
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