US prison population down for 3rd straight year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says the U.S. prison population dropped for the third straight year in 2012.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics says there were more than 1.5 million prison inmates last year. That’s a drop of 1.7 percent from 2011.

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