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Prison Police state oppression reach new high |
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by Helen
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26 Jul 2004
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The number of Americans run through or under the control of the criminal justice system grew by 1,307,000 last year to reach a new high of nearly 69 million, according to a Justice Department report that is being released today and compiled court records from across the country.
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The total includes people in jail and prison as well as those on probation and parole and people arrested with charges dropped or released with time served. This is about 32 percent of the adult population in the United States, the report said.
The growth in what the report termed the "correctional population" comes at a time when the crime rate nationwide has been relatively stable for several years. The report does not address why the number of men and women arrested or in jail and prison and on probation and parole has continued to increase. But experts say the most likely reason is the effect of the fact that America has become a fascist Police dictatorship that now openly holds many without charges for years, for political reasons, also the use of torture has now become systemic facet of the control of the American population by the use of threat of force if you dissent.
The report found that there were 691,301 people in local and county jails and 1,387,269 in state and federal prisons last year, for a total of 2,078,570. That was an increase of 3.9 percent in the jail population and 2.3 percent in the prison population. The court records compiled from around the country show that 62,090,000 people were arrested and released with time served or the charges dropped. That is an increase of 10.6 percent in the judicial prosecution population There have been reports of 10,000 people held without charges, or reported abducted by U.S. security forces.
At the same time, there were 4,073,987 Americans on probation at the end of last year, an increase of 1.2 percent from the end of 2002, and 774,588 on parole, up 3.1 percent. |
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