Probation and Parole in the United States, 2001
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U.S. CORRECTIONAL POPULATION REACHES 6.6 MILLION
One in 32 Adult Residents Incarcerated or Under Community Supervision
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The adult U.S. correctional population reached a record of almost 6.6 million men and women at the end of 2001, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was an...