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In 2018, the United States had the highest incarceration rate in the world. [5] While the United States represented about 4.2 percent of the world's population in 2020, [6] it housed around 20 percent of the world's prisoners. [7]
21 maj 2024 · The United States is unparalleled historically and ranks among the highest worldwide in its dependence on incarceration. 1 Over five million people in total are under supervision by the criminal legal system. 2 Of these, nearly two million people, disproportionately Black, are living in prisons and jails instead of their communities.
According to the World Prison Brief on May 7, 2023, the United States has the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000. Expenses related to prison, parole, and probation operations have an annual estimated cost of around $81 billion.
With nearly two million people behind bars at any given time, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. We spend about $182 billion every year — not to mention the significant social cost — to lock up nearly 1% of our adult population.
The prison populations in each U.S. state vary from one to the next, with the highest rates in Louisiana and Oklahoma. Overall, the incarceration rate in the U.S. has skyrocketed in the past decade—the prison population was a mere 200,000 in 1972, less than a tenth of today's total.
20 lip 2018 · Today, the U.S. incarceration rate is nine times higher than Germany, eight times higher than Italy, five times higher than the U.K., and 15 times higher than Japan. Why? Simply put, other countries do not use prison as a one-size-fits-all solution to crime.
The 2021 US incarceration rate of 531 per 100,000 population was the 6th highest rate. [1] According to the World Prison Population List (11th edition) there were around 10.35 million people in penal institutions worldwide in 2015. [5] The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6]
