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To: ColtonGang who wrote (174417)	8/26/2001 9:44:10 AM
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Easy access to guns?........... U.S. jail population hits record high 6.5 million in correctional system, but growth rate slows WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 — The U.S. federal, state and adult correctional population rose 2 percent in 2000 to a record 6.5 million people, a Department of Justice report showed Sunday. The report said 3.1 percent of adults in the United States are part of the country’s correctional population. THE DEPARTMENT’S Bureau of Justice Statistics said the United States, which has the largest prison and jail population in the world, added 117,400 more people to its “correctional community” a year ago. Advertisement The total number of adults under correctional supervision includes incarcerated inmates as well as those on parole or probation. The 2 percent increase in 2000 was below the annual rise of 4 percent averaged each year during the last decade. Overall, the nation’s correctional population has soared 48.7 percent from 4.35 million in 1990, the data showed. At the end of last year, women comprised 22 percent of those on probation, and 12 percent of all parolees. Some 66 percent of the people on probation and half of those on parole were white while the comparative numbers for blacks were a third and 40 percent. The states with the largest percent of their adult population under correctional supervision were Georgia at 6.8 percent, Texas at 5.0 percent and Idaho at 4.9 percent. West Virginia, New Hampshire, and North Dakota reported the lowest at 0.9 percent. © 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.