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Inmates cost taxpayers $65 per day
Posted: 11.20.2012 at 6:50 AM Updated: 11.20.2012 at 8:35 AM
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The United States has had the highest incarceration rate in the entire world since 2002. The state of Texas currently leads the U.S. in incarceration growth imprisoning the greatest number of people in the nation.

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