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December 09, 2006

US Has Largest Prison Population in the World

A U.S. Justice Department report released on November 30 showed that a record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. Of the total, 2.2 million were in prison or jail.

Reuters via Yahoo! News

Posted by Nick at December 9, 2006 04:38 PM

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