Prison numbers reach record high
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The number of prisoners in Scotland's jails reaches a record high, according to new figures.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty, unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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SANTA YSABEL, California  - As California struggles to extinguish some of the state's most devastating forest fires, it has turned to a record number of prisoners for some of the most demanding work.
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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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Unprecedented numbers joined the protests today, intensifying a confrontation with the ruling junta.
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Burma has completed its mass release of more than 9,000 jail inmates following a shake-up in the military-run regime. A prison source says that all 9,248 prisoners promised freedom have been released, although
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More than an inmate a day died violently in Venezuela's crowded prisons last year, as riots and weapons trafficking ran rampant behind bars, a human rights group said in an annual report.
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The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation, the chief inspector warns.
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Major U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq are nearly full, with the number of suspected insurgents in custody at the highest level since March, according to detention officials.
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Prisons and jails added more than 42,000 inmates last year, the largest increase since 2000.
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The delinquency rate for mortgage borrowers spiked higher in the second quarter and the number of homes entering the foreclosure process hit a record high, according to a report released Thursday.
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Yangon - Three truckloads of inmates rolled out of Myanmar&#39;s main jail on Friday, a day after the military regime announced it was expanding its prisoner release programme to more than 9 000 people, a correspondent saw.
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83 high-risk offenders charged with a further serious offence last year while under supervision.
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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 figure for homeless families in England has topped 100,000 for the first time.
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By Cassie Tarpley, The Shelby Star, N.C.  Jun. 24--SHELBY -- Each year, more than 22,000 inmates are released from North Carolina's state prison system. Ninety-eight percent of the inmates in prison today will be released in the future.
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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.