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| The US prison population fell in 2016 — for the 3rd year in a row The number of people imprisoned in the US dropped for the third year in a row in 2016, according to a new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. About 1.5 million people were in a US prison in 2016, down from a peak of 1.6 million in 2009. The imprisonment rate fell from a peak of 506 per 100,000 ...
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| 'What the hell is going on?' Polio cases are vanishing in Pakistan, yet the virus won't go away Just a year ago, poliovirus seemed on its last legs in Pakistan, one of its final strongholds. Polio cases were steadily falling, from 306 in 2014 to 54 in 2015, 20 in 2016, and, by last count, eight in 2017. Blood tests showed that, overall, immunity to the virus had never been higher, even among children ...
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