The United States houses a quarter of the world’s prison population. The Justice Department has an annual budget of about $27 Billion, a third of which is spent on operating the federal Bureau of Prison’s 120 facilities. Further, since 1980, the US population has grown by about a third, while…
We have known for some time that the United States incarcerates more people than any other industrialized nation on the planet. The federal prison system, which has grown approximately 700% since 1980, currently holds about 216,000 inmates. Additionally, states, counties and municipalities each have their own prison systems. It is…