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“One in every 142 U.S. residents was in prison or jail [in 2002]” when inmate skin infections were a growing concern, writes Daniel Yee with the The Associated Press.1
“The number of Americans under the control of the criminal justice system grew by 130,700 [in 2003] to reach a new high of nearly 6.9 million, according to a Justice Department report [released 26 July 2004], notes Fox Butterfield for The New York Times. “This is about 3.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, the report said, and the total includes people in jail and prison as well as those on probation and
Of federal prisoners in 1994, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that about 50 percent “were being held for drug law violations” and “among state inmates, approximately 21 percent [we]re confined for drug
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“The [New York Police Department’s] stop-and-frisk practices raise serious concerns over racial profiling, illegal stops and privacy rights,” writes the New York Civil Liberties Union (NCLU):
An analysis by the NCLU revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD
