[A]bout one in every 31 adults [was] under correctional supervision at the end of 2004, compared with about 1 in 36 adults in 1995 and about 1 adult in every 88 in 1980
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The change is not due to rising crime rates. It is due to different sentencing laws.
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The racial disparity between those incarcerated and those under supervision outside of incarceration is significant.
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