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Government report says 2.1 million behind bars in U.S.
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of MSNBC
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7622824/
Growing at a rate of about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, the nations prisons and jails held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents, the government reported Sunday. While the crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released. In 2004, one in every 138 U.S. residents was in prison or jail. 61 percent of prison and jail inmates were of racial or ethnic minorities, the government said. An estimated 12.6 percent of all black men in their late 20s were in jails or prisons, as were 3.6 percent of Hispanic men and 1.7 percent of white men in that age group, the report said.
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