US_incarceration_timeline.gif
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Timeline of total number of inmates in U.S. prisons and jails. From 1920 to 2008. War on Drugs (1971). Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 ( mandatory minimum sentencing ). See also: Incarceration in the United States . Data sources:
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Date | See timeline on chart. |
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