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USA - Largest Per Capita Prison Population on the Planet... And YOU are Paying for it.!

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US Mass Incarceration received a lot of press in 2014. Lawmakers debated over the financial impact of leading the World in incarcerated citizens per capita had on the Federal budget.

It is a shame that it took a review of the budget to stir conversation about the United State’s great crime against its own citizens: Mass Incarceration. A tidal wave of putting Americans behind bars that began in the 1980’s when our lawmakers decided to get tough on drug criminals, eventually leading to minimum mandatory prison sentences for drug and drug related crimes.

Our criminal defense team created the graphic below to tell the story of the Mass Incarceration epidemic.

(These are totals as opposed to percapita figures…
 
Prison Population Total
1 United States of America 2 217 000
2 China 1 657 812
3 Russian Federation 642 444
4 Brazil 607 731
5 India 418 536
6 Thailand 313 580
7 Mexico 255 138
8 Iran 225 624
9 Turkey 174 460
10 Indonesia 161 692
11 South Africa 159 241
12 Vietnam 142 636
13 Colombia 121 295
14 Philippines 120 076
15 Ethiopia 111 050
16 United Kingdom: England & Wales 85 982
17 Pakistan 80 169
18 Morocco 76 000
19 Peru 75 637
20 Poland 72 609
21 Ukraine 70 873

http://www.aecf.org/m/resourcedoc/aecf-YouthIncarcerationInfographic-2013.pdf

http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2014/05/01/infographic-the-growth-of-incarceration-in-the-u-s/

http://billmoyers.com/2012/05/30/infographic-u-s-incarceration-rates/

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=18613

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/plap/

htt://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p11.pdf

http://www.afscme.org/blog/for-profit-prison-lockup-quotas-put-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-company-profits

http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/09/23/a-deep-look-into-the-shady-world-of-the-private-prison-industry/

http://www.hamiltonproject.org

 



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