Jail

Posted by Kerim
April 25, 2005

The US prison population has risen further, with one in 138 people now in jail, new official figures reveal.

There are more than 2.1 million US citizens in jail - more than in any other country, the Bureau of Justice Statistics says.

…It means the incarceration rate reached a record of 726 people per 100,000 residents.

This is from a BBC news story, drawing on a report from the Justice Policy Institute. They also provide this chart comparing incarceration rates in the U.S. to that of other countries:

A lot of the growth is from federal prisons, and a few states which haven’t yet learned how costly it is to keep people incarcerated.

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