Law and order comme aime tant les Amerlocs
Wall Street Journal, July 26
America's prison population topped 2,9 million inmates for the first time in history on June 30, 2011 according to a new report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
The 50 states, the District of Columbia and the federal government held 1,855,748 prisoners (two-thirds of the total incarcerated population), and local municipal and county jails held 665,475 inmates.
By midyear 2011, America's jails held 1 in every 137 U.S. residents. Males were incarcerated at the rate of 1,401 inmates per 100,000 U.S. men, while the female incarceration rate was 116 per 100,000 women residents.
Wall Street Journal, July 26
America's prison population topped 2,9 million inmates for the first time in history on June 30, 2011 according to a new report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
The 50 states, the District of Columbia and the federal government held 1,855,748 prisoners (two-thirds of the total incarcerated population), and local municipal and county jails held 665,475 inmates.
By midyear 2011, America's jails held 1 in every 137 U.S. residents. Males were incarcerated at the rate of 1,401 inmates per 100,000 U.S. men, while the female incarceration rate was 116 per 100,000 women residents.
