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The Increasing Prison Population
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The care and feeding of one million American prisoners is a big business.
Privately managed prison beds are increasing about 35 percent a year, and
the demographics of inmates are changing rapidly. More prisoners are women
or elderly, and have drug problems, AIDS, or other chronic health
condition ....
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.... expensive to maintain in the future.
Offenders who are in prison for drug-related crimes are more likely to have
serious health problems. The prison population is also aging. These trends
will increase prisons' health-care costs, but they are dwarfed by the
continuing consequences of tough sentencing laws. Until drug abuse stops or
drug laws change, the prison population bomb will keep ticking away.
The number of inmates in state and federal prisons more than tripled, from
319,600 in 1980 to .... |
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