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| U.S. imprisonment rate falls to lowest since 1997: Justice Department |
| By reuters.com |
| Published: 12/30/2016 |
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The U.S. prison population fell the most in almost four decades to 1.53 million inmates in 2015, resulting in the lowest rate of incarceration in a generation, the Department of Justice said on Thursday. The drop has been driven by changes in federal and state corrections policies that include drug treatment programs and the sentencing of fewer nonviolent drug offenders to federal prisons, the department said in its year-end report on prison populations. Read More. |
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