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Jail Inmates at Midyear 2011 - Statistical Tables

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U.S. JAIL POPULATION DECLINES FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR  

WASHINGTON – The U.S. jail inmate population declined for a third consecutive year, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. From June 2010 to June...