These astonishing figures don’t include people in military or

CIA prisons. Kinda makes you snicker at Republican blandishments about “criminalizing conservatives.” Let’s see one conservative go to

prison. mjh

HoustonChronicle.com – Number in prison or on supervision nearly 7

million By REBECCA CARROLL, Associated Press

The total number of people incarcerated in the United States grew 1.9 percent in

2004 to 2,267,787 people. …

The number of people on probation in 2004 grew by 6,343 to about 4.2 million. …

Nearly 7

million adults were in U.S. prisons or on probation or parole at the end of last year, 30 percent more than in 1995, the Justice

Department said Wednesday.

That was about one in every 31 adults 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 ….