Add to ORKGThe United States has experienced a precipitous rise in its state and federal prison population over the last forty years. During that period, the number of individuals incarcerated in our nation has risen from approximately 300,000 to more than 2 million. We now have the highest incarceration rate in the world, with more than 700 out of every 100,000 Americans behind bars. Our nation\u27s incarceration rate is roughly 5 times the international average. By comparison, Germany incarcerates 85 per 100,000; France incarcerates 96 per 100,000; and Canada incarcerates 117 per 100,000. Only Rwanda comes anywhere near the U.S. rate, with 595 per 100,000
Prior to the 1970’s, the total number of incarcerated Americans had scarcely ever risen above two-hu...
In the “Land of the Free,” we are home to the largest prison system in the modern history of the wor...
Mass incarceration is a term used to describe the United States locking up people in prisons and jai...
The United States has experienced a precipitous rise in its state and federal prison population over...
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States experienced an exponential growth in its prison population...
On any given day, about 2.2 million people are confined in U.S. jails and prisons—nearly 0.9% of Ame...
The United States holds roughly 5 percent of the total world population, but also houses 25 percent ...
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the Unite...
A plethora of evidence confirms that America continues to lead the world in imprisonment. No serious...
The United States correctional population is viewed as a pressing societal problem with widespread e...
What has caused prison sentences to climb so sharply and consistently in the last four decades
This fact sheet makes simple side-by-side comparisons of the most reliable and current statistics fr...
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States embarked on a shift in its penal policies, tripling the pe...
While mass incarceration has emerged as an urgent national issue to be addressed, the reforms curren...
America’s mass incarceration system functions as a tool to keep their black communities impoverished...
Prior to the 1970’s, the total number of incarcerated Americans had scarcely ever risen above two-hu...
In the “Land of the Free,” we are home to the largest prison system in the modern history of the wor...
Mass incarceration is a term used to describe the United States locking up people in prisons and jai...
The United States has experienced a precipitous rise in its state and federal prison population over...
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States experienced an exponential growth in its prison population...
On any given day, about 2.2 million people are confined in U.S. jails and prisons—nearly 0.9% of Ame...
The United States holds roughly 5 percent of the total world population, but also houses 25 percent ...
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the Unite...
A plethora of evidence confirms that America continues to lead the world in imprisonment. No serious...
The United States correctional population is viewed as a pressing societal problem with widespread e...
What has caused prison sentences to climb so sharply and consistently in the last four decades
This fact sheet makes simple side-by-side comparisons of the most reliable and current statistics fr...
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States embarked on a shift in its penal policies, tripling the pe...
While mass incarceration has emerged as an urgent national issue to be addressed, the reforms curren...
America’s mass incarceration system functions as a tool to keep their black communities impoverished...
Prior to the 1970’s, the total number of incarcerated Americans had scarcely ever risen above two-hu...
In the “Land of the Free,” we are home to the largest prison system in the modern history of the wor...
Mass incarceration is a term used to describe the United States locking up people in prisons and jai...