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Essay Galaxy - The Increasing Prison Population
The Increasing Prison Population
The care and feeding of one million American prisoners is a big business.
Privately managed prison beds are increasing about 35 percent a year, and
the demographics of inmates are changing rapidly. More prisoners are women
or elderly, and have drug problems, AIDS, or other chronic health
conditions. The number of prisoners seems certain to increase--but even if
it doesn't, the cost of running prisons will.
Prisons are often referred to as "the big house," but "full house" may be a
better term. In 1994, 1 million people lived in America's federal and state
prisons. Another 3.7 million were on probation or parole, and half a
million were confined to locally run jails. The grand total: more than 5.1
million adults were under some form of correctional supervision two years
ago. That is m....
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