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Miss. has 2nd highest inmate population in the nation
As Mississippi enters the second half of the current fiscal year, the state’s prison population continues to increase with no apparent signs of abating.
During 2011, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities declined by 0.9 percent, from 1,613,803 to 1,598,780.
But that was not the case in Mississippi. […]
