Prisoner numbers hit record high
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales reaches a record high of 81,135 inmates.
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Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.
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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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A record 7 million people &#151; or one in every 32 American adults &#151; were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2,193,798 were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year.
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YANGON : At least two Myanmar dissidents were among thousands of prisoners being freed after the military government announced it had begun releasing more than 5,000 detainees in a third mass release in less than a month, relatives and officials said.
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The number of people living beyond 100 years has reached a record high in England and Wales, official figures show.
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Nearly 30,000 detainees crowd two American-run detention facilities, and one US officer wants to set many free.
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The number of individuals going bankrupt has hit a record high, government figures revealed yesterday in fresh evidence that over-indebted households are struggling to cope with recent interest rate rises.
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New figures suggest the number of abusive and violent attacks on Britain's Jewish community reached record levels in 2004.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales hits a new high for the fourth week running and outstrips jail capacity.
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More than 1,300 members of the armed forces  receive criminal convictions while serving in Northern Ireland.
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ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- More aggressive US military operations in Iraq over the past two months have generated a surge in detainees, nearly doubling the number held by US forces to about 8,300, according to the general in charge of detention operations.
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THE number of Scots diagnosed with HIV has risen to the highest quarterly total on record, according to figures published yesterday.
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Figures seen by the BBC show that self-inflicted deaths in English prisons reached a new monthly high in August.
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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
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Individual bankruptcies in England and Wales have risen to their highest level on record, official figures show.
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The number of emergency ambulance calls in England has hit a new high, figures show.