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The
number of male adults in the correctional population increased by more than two-thirds
from 1986-97 while the number of females doubled.
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- Source: Bureau of Justice
Statistics Correctional Surveys
- (The National Probation
Data Survey, National Prisoner Statistics,
Survey of Jails, and The National Parole Data Survey) as presented
in Correctional Populations
in the United States, 1997.
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