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Between 1990 and 2008, the number of Hispanic
jail inmates increased at a faster average annual rate of growth (4.5%) than white (3.8%) and black inmates (3.3%).
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- Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics Correctional Surveys (The
Annual Survey of Jails and Census of Jail Inmates) as presented
in Correctional
Populations in the United States, 1997,
Prison
and Jail Inmates at Midyear series, 1998-2006, and
Jail Inmates at Midyear series .
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