Criminal
Sep. 17, 2014
California helped fuel modest uptick in nation's prison population last year: report
The country saw a jump of about 4,300 prisoners from 2012, bringing last year's total to 1,574,700 inmates in state and federal prisons, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics data released Tuesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
California is partly responsible for a modest increase in the nation's prison population last year after a three-year decline, according to an analysis of new data by Washington, D.C.-based The Sentencing Project.
The country saw a jump of about 4,300 prisoners from 2012, bringing the estimated total number of state and federal prisoners at the end of last year to 1,574,700, according to Bureau ...
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