Correctional Officers: Strategies to Improve Retention - MTC

a slower rate than during the previous two years.17 The growth of the prison population since 2000 is 1.8 percent per year on average; it slowed to just 0.8 percent for state and federal prisons by yearend 2008, with state prisoners increasing to 1,409,166 and federal prisoners increasing to 201,280, up from 1,398,627 and 199,618 respectively.18

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