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Prison And Jail Population Hits Record High
Updated 4:48 PM ET August 15, 1999
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. adult prisons and jails held a
record 1.82 million inmates last year, meaning one out of every 149
residents was behind bars, the Justice Department reported Sunday.
The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said in its semiannual
report that the prison and jail population at Dec. 31, 1998, rose 4.6
percent, or 80,400 inmates, from 1.74 million inmates in 1997.
"The population has been growing steadily," said Allen Beck of the
statistics bureau.
"I don't think there's been a decline in more than 25 years," Beck
said, referring to 1972 when there was a slight decline in the nation's
prison population.
Beck also said there is a real decline in serious crime nationally.
Jails are different from prisons because they are locally operated
and typically hold persons awaiting trial and those with sentences of
one year or less.
In 1997, for which the most recent ethnic breakdown is available,
the federal and state prison population was 49 percent black, 48
percent white, 2 percent American Indian or Alaska Native and 1
percent Asian or Pacific Islander.
The female prison population grew by 6.5 percent over the previous
year, compared with the 4.7 percent increase in the number of men
behind bars. There were 14 times more men than women in prison in
1998.
The report said state prisons were operating at a 13 to 22 percent
over-capacity, while federal prisons were 27 percent over capacity.
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