Mass incarceration, perhaps the greatest social crisis in modern American history, is without parallel on a global scale.
Matt Ford - July 23, 2014
How large is America's prison problem? More than 2.4 million people are behind bars in the United States today, either awaiting trial or serving a sentence. That's more than the combined population of 15 states, all but three U.S. cities, and the U.S. armed forces. They're scattered throughout a constellation of 102 federal prisons, 1,719 state prisons, 2,259 juvenile facilities, 3,283 local jails, and many more military, immigration, territorial, and Indian Country facilities. Compared to the rest of the world, these numbers are staggering.
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