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Over half of the increase in the prison population since 1995 is due to an increase in the prisoners convicted of violent offenses.
After sharp increases in the 1980s and 1990s, the incarceration rate has recently grown at a slower pace.
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A hiney bird is a bird that flies in perfectly executed, concentric circles until it eventually flies up its own behind and poof! disappears forever....
-Ken Harrelson
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