Texas has nation's largest prison population, there's no contest here, just the fact for you to make analysis from. But its your moral & intellectual choice to be "waiting" till a more convenient time perhaps?
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Texas now houses more than 152,000, compared with about 134,000 inmates in California, according to recent statistics from both prison systems. Florida was a distant third, with about 100,000 inmates as of June.A year ago, Texas had more than 156,000 prisoners in 111 state prisons.
Though Texas, with more than 25 million residents, has more inmates than any other state, it has fallen from second to fourth place in the number of people imprisoned per capita. Louisiana tops the per capita list.
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