Prosecutors in State Courts, 2001
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NUMBER OF FULL-TIME PROSECUTORS GROWS IN NATION'S STATE COURT SYSTEMS
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The nation's 2,341 local prosecutorial districts headed by full-time prosecutors has increased during the last decade from 53 percent to 77 percent of the total, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. As of last year, there...