jail populations

What Was The Prison Population In 1980?

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What Was The Prison Population In 1980? But during the 1980s, the nation’s prison population increased by almost 134 percent. At the end of 1980, there were almost 330,000 convicts in America’s state and federal prisons. That number exploded to 771,000 at the end of 1990. What was the prison population in 1990? The number

Why Incarceration Is A Public Health Issue?

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Why Incarceration Is A Public Health Issue? Mass incarceration is one of the major public health challenges facing the United States, as the millions of people cycling through the courts, jails, and prisons every year experience far higher rates of chronic health problems, substance use, and mental illness than the general population. Why is incarceration