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Incarceration rate climbs as prisons hold 2.2 million
Government figures show prisons and jails averaged 1,085 new inmates weekly, reaching about 2.2 million last summer. The 33,539-jump in 2005 marked the largest rise since 1997, with jails now housing 750,000 inmates and two thirds in prisons. Racial and gender patterns show men predominate and black men face higher rates.
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