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U.S. Incarceration Tops Two Million in 2002
The 2002 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows the total inmate population at 2.1 million on June 30, with two thirds in federal or state prisons and one third in jails. The federal system held about 162,000 inmates, including 8,900 transferred from D C. The rise is tied to tough sentencing for drug offenses and three strikes laws, with the federal population up 5.7 percent while state prisons grew under 1 percent.
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