Facts About The Prison Industry in the United States

The United States maintains the largest prison system in the world, far outpacing its closest international competitors in both prison population and incarceration rates. For the first time in 2008, more than 1 in 100 adults in the U.S. were incarcerated in county, state or federal correctional facilities. When probation and parole are included in the equation, approximately 7.2 million people were under some form of correctional supervision by 2009. This represents 1 in 31 adults in the U.S., including 1 in 18 men, 1 in 27 Latinos/as and 1 in 11 African Americans. As a result of the unprecedented scope of the prison system, federal and state corrections combined now cost taxpayers approximately $68 billion per year.

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The Corrections Corporation of America

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