Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Prisoner Population Hits Record Number
From Times staff and Wire reports
The number of inmates in state and federal prisons jumped 42,862 during the first half of 1990 as the nation’s prisoner population reached a record 755,425, the Justice Department said. The 6% increase during the six-month period was only slightly less than the record 46,000 jump during the first half of 1989, said a Bureau of Justice Statistics study of state and federal prison populations. Incarcerations ran at a record annual increase of 80,000 prisoners from June, 1989, to June of this year.
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