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Almost nine out of every ten jail inmates were adult males.
The number of juveniles held in adult facilities declined from 1999-2007.
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- Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics Correctional Surveys (The
Annual Survey of Jails and Census of Jail Inmates) as presented
in Correctional
Populations in the United States, 1997, and
- Prison
and Jail Inmates at Midyear series, 1998-2006, and
Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007.
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