1,000 Incarcerated Per Week From '04-'05
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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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The number of people charged with racially aggravated offences rose by 28% last year, figures show.
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Research finds a significant number of inmates come from some of Scotland's poorest areas.
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While other prisoners are lifting weights or playing basketball, Michael Ray is working 40 hours a week, his head buried in legal texts and journals. Over the years, the jailhouse lawyer has helped dozens of fellow inmates file appeals, sometimes with success.
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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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In the first week of a special program during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.S. military released 260 Iraqi detainees from U.S. prisons, the military said Wednesday, compelling each to take a pledge before an Iraqi judge not to engage in misconduct and requiring a family member or a friend...
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The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has grown from three to 75, the U.S. military said Monday, reflecting increasing defiance among men who have been held for up to 4 1/2 years, most without charges and with little contact with the outside world.
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'
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The number of criminals jailed in England and Wales fell by 5% in 2006, according to the Ministry of Justice.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales reaches a record high of 81,135 inmates.
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How a ticket led to 1 year in prison.
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More than 1,000 people, many of them young children, have been forced to work as slaves in a brutal human trafficking ring in China that has shocked and outraged the nation, police said Friday.
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The number of U.S. state and federal  inmates sent to prison under death sentences dropped to a  30-year-low in 2003 as they declined for the third consecutive  year, the U.S. Justice Department said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON - The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the Death Row population fell for the third year in a row, signaling the continuation of a slow trend away from state- and federally ordered executions, according to
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period
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WASHINGTON - The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.    The study was the latest contribution to a decade-long trend in which violent crime as measured by victim surveys has fallen by 55 percent and property crime by 49 percent...