Why The U.S. Has More Prisoners Than Any Other Country
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In October 2015, the US Justice Department announced that they were releasing 6,000 inmates from federal prisons around the country; the largest release in history. Officials have said that this is an attempt at dealing with overcrowded prisons. The released inmates are mostly non-violent drug offenders and undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. With millions of inmates still in prison, we wanted to know, why does the US have more prisoners than any other country in the world? Well, today the US incarcerates roughly one in 100 of its citizens. That amounts to about 2.2 million adults behind bars. But by comparison, in 1979, there were only about 300,000 total prisoners. Over that same time period, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses increased by over 1,000%. So wha...
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In October 2015, the US Justice Department announced that they were releasing 6,000 inmates from federal prisons around the country; the largest release in history. Officials have said that this is an attempt at dealing with overcrowded prisons. The released inmates are mostly non-violent drug offenders and undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. With millions of inmates still in prison, we wanted to know, why does the US have more prisoners than any other country in the world? Well, today the US incarcerates roughly one in 100 of its citizens. That amounts to about 2.2 million adults behind bars. But by comparison, in 1979, there were only about 300,000 total prisoners. Over that same time period, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses increased by over 1,000%. So wha...
