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Nearly 1.5 million American children have a mother or father in federal or state prison 151;a figure that has grown in step with the swelling of the nation s prison population, the Justice Department reported Wednesday.The department s Bureau of Justice Statistics said that at the end of last year, 1,498,800 children under age 18 had a parent in prison in this co
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