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Section II: The Statistics

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Section II: The Statistics

  • The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation in the world.
  • The jail and prison population has gone from less than 200,000 in 1972 to 2.2 million today.
  • Incarceration in the United Stateshas increased by more than 500% in the last 40 years.
  • The United States makes up about 5% of the world’s population and has 21% of the world’s prisoners.
  • 4.6 million people were on probation or parole in 2015 for a total of 6.7 million people in America under some form of criminal justice supervision
  • 1 in every 37 adults in the United States, or 2.7% of the adult population, is under some form of correctional supervision.
  • As of 2007, more than half of those incarcerated were parents of children under the age of 18.
  • The number of Americans with criminal records is about the same as the number of Americans with a 4-year degree.

Questions to consider:

  • Which statistic did you find the most concerning? Why?
  • Consider our past consideration of inequality in the criminal justice system. How might inequality and mass incarceration impact each other?
  • Why do you predict the United States has so many more people in prison than other countries?
  • Looking forward: What do you think is the cause of mass incarceration?

DMU Timestamp: March 12, 2020 00:41





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