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WASHINGTON (AP) - Prisons and jails added more than 42,000 inmates last year, the largest increase since 2000.
The total number of people incarcerated by federal or state authorities in the year ending June 30, 2006, was roughly 1.6 million, the government said Wednesday. That translated to a 2.8 percent increase from the previous year, due to people being put in prison at a faster rate than those released.
Overall, the number of people behind bars — including those held in local jails — was more than 2.2 million, according to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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