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PA prison population up despite national decline

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pa. prison population up despite national decline The Associated Press 3-22-10 HARRISBURG, Pa. - Even as the number of people in state prisons across the country has fallen for the first time in almost four decades, Pennsylvania's prison population is on the increase. Pennsylvania had a 4.3 percent rise in the number of prisoners last year, the Pew Center on the States said in a study issued last week. Across the country, state prisons nationwide held roughly 1.4 million inmates at the beginning of the year, 0.4 percent fewer than there were at the end of 2008 , the first year-to-year drop since 1972, the study said. The center attributed the decline in part to states adopting guidelines reflecting research that low-level offenders and those who have committed technical parole violations are more effectively handled in community programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).