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- Title
- The United States has the world's largest inmate population
- Author
- Cox, Don
- Pages
- 2 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- [no title] The United States has the world's largest inmate population with some 2.2 million people in prisons and jails [China is second with 1.5 million] as well as the world's highest incarceration rate with 690 out of every 100,000 people locked up. (Russia has 490 out of every 100,000 people). Texas operates one hundred & sixteen prisons. It is the largest penal system in the United States, housing well over 156,000 inmates and that number is growing. You can debate why the...
- PID
- apw:12349635
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-03-15T19:51:39.687Z
- Title
- The life of a Texas prisoner
- Author
- Cox, Don
- Date
- 2001-12-21
- Pages
- 4 pages
- Text (TR_WF)
- The Life of a Texas Prisoner December 2001 12-21-2001 Perhaps you have wondered what it must be like to be in a Texas prison. Let's face it: the food is bad, never hot living conditions, health care, television programs sports or very violence, t.v shows. We are subject to harsh treatment by prison staff, and face extreme violence from other prisoners. I can tell you first hand it is no fun. Prison life is very stressful. There are long lines to wait in eg chow, commissary, neccessity, p...
- PID
- apw:12352115
- Date Uploaded
- 2018-06-15T17:43:56.423Z