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1 in 136 Americans in prison

• Associated Press
Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars. That 2.6%increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates.

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