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For
all races, the number of adults in the correctional population increased
from 1986-97; the number of blacks almost doubled and the number of whites
rose by two-thirds.
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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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