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  • 019620

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  • Published 2004.
  • 52 pages.

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The New Landscape of Imprisonment: Mapping America's Prison Expansion

Publication year: 2004 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The prison construction boom experienced by the ten study states which had the most growth in the number of prisons from 1980 - 2000 is examined. Eight sections follow an executive summary: introduction; overall growth in the number of prisons; changes in the general population; prison growth by state; mapping county-level changes in the top 10 states; effects on small communities; mapping county of sentencing versus county of incarceration; and conclusion. The number of state prison facilities increased 67% in order to house an increase of over a million prisoners.
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