US jail numbers at all-time high
A new study of US prisons has found that numbers of people in jail are at an
all-time high, with more than 1% of the adult population behind bars.
The Pew Center report calls the US the global leader in the rate at which it
imprisons its citizens.
Over 2.3
With 750 inmates per 100,000 people, imprisonment cost the 50 states
more than $49bn last year, up from less than $11bn 20 years earlier.
Now that we've made a good run a privatizing prisons, I assume there's
a substantial and active biz lobby wherever sentencing policy can be
influenced.
