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Record 2.3M Crowd US Prisons

Federal report describes system in crisis

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 12, 2008 5:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – A record 7.2 million criminals were behind bars, on parole, or being supervised on probation in 2006—a figure that cost taxpayers $45 billion and has states rethinking sentencing laws and shipping inmates elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. Of that number, 2.3 million...   Read full story »

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