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AMERICA BEHIND BARS Welcome to the United States of America; home of the brave, land of the free. Well not completely free. Matter of fact America has the highest prison population rate in the world, some 738 per 100,000 of the national population, topping out over countries like Russia and China. During 2007, the prison population increased more rapidly than the U.S. resident population. To put this in perspective, take Germany’s prison population: 93 people for every 100 adults are behind bars. In the U.S, the rate is roughly eight times that. There is constant talk about the over crowding of prisons nation wide where the prison system in our country is operating at 32 percent over rated capacity. The state of California built 21 new prisons and only one new university over the last two decades. They also spent 8.8 billion dollars on corrections for the year 2007. With a total of 42.9 billion dollars spent on corrections nation wide; compare that to the 24.7 billion spent on public assistance (social welfare i.e. food stamps, medical assistance etc.). There is clearly an issue on our hands. With increases of correctional control rates in a majority of states; if these rates continue to grow, these conditions could potentially jeopardize public safety. So why
is our nation facing this problem? Is violent crimes really so abundant? Well, actually no, they only account up to about 40 to 50 percent of the prison population. So why are the other 50 percent behind bars? Simply put; drugs. In Federal prisons 55 percent of inmates are drug offenders serving an average sentence length of three and a half years. This is critical in addressing the prison population crisis. First, regardless on your stance on drugs, these offenders spend over three years behind bars, which ends up a very costly stay. Who pays? You, of course, the great American tax payer. When these offenders get done serving their three years behind bars full of drug addicts, murderers. rapists do you think they are going to come back into society as perfect little angels? Actually its a fact that 1 in every for non violent offender serving time will come back for a violent crime. Our Nations Correctional Control has many problems that Americans need to be aware of. We need to resolve these matters in a timely fashion before the problem gets out of our control. Below are statistics by state that break down how great our prison population rate is, and shouldn’t be.
1 in 35 eleven percent women
1 in 53 seven percent women
1 in 54 nine percent women
1 in 26 nine percent women
1 in 38 six percent women
1 in 18 eleven percent women
1 in 81 seven percent women
1 in 27 �ve percent women
1 in 24 seven percent women
1 in 27 four percent women
1 in 26 nine percent women
1 in 29 ten percent women
1 in 36 seven percent women
1 in 29 seven percent women
1 in 33 nine percent women
1 in 36 twelve percent women
1 in 32 seven percent women
1 in 26 eight percent women
1 in 31 seven percent women
1 in 13 seven percent women
1 in 32 thirteen percent women
1 in 32 seven percent women
1 in 48 eight percent women
1 in 44 nine percent women
1 in 44 nine percent women
1 in 36 eight percent women
1 in 38 nine percent women
1 in 26 seven percent women
1 in 35 �ve percent women
1 in 35 nine percent women
1 in 53 �ve percent women
1 in 38 seven percent women
Alabama Alaska ARIZONA ARKANSAS CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT
DELAWARE FLORIDA HAWAII ILLINOIS
KENTUCKY MASSACHUSETTS MICHAGAN
MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI MONTANA NEBRASKA NEW MEXICO
NORTH CAROLINA
1 in 64 nine percent women
1 in 22 eight percent women
1 in 40 eight percent women
1 in 40 one percent women
1 in 38 seven percent women
1 in 26 seven percent women
1 in 28 six percent women
1 in 33 eight percent women
1 in 42 ten percent women
1 in 25 eight percent women
1 in 63 ten percent women
ohIo oklahoma oregon pennsylvanIa
1 in 38 eleven percent women
1 in 39 six percent women
1 in 68 ten percent women
1 in 30 eight percent women
1 in 46 eight percent women
IOWA KANSAS MAINE
NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW YORK
north dakota
1 in 46 seven percent women
rhode Island south carolIna south dakota
tennesse texas utah vermont vIrgInIa washIngton west vIrgInIa wIsconsIn wyomIng
1 in 88 nine percent women
NEW JERSEY
GEORGIA IDAHO INDIANA
LOUISIANA MARYLAND MINNESOTA
highest twenty percentlowest twenty percent
State
Amount spent (in cents) compared to one dollar spent on higher education
Total amount spent on corrections
Percent increase from last year ( *decrease)
Total amount of adults incarcerated
HI
6,036 / 1.2205m
31
WY
2,053 / 2.9*82m
23
HI
6,036 / 1.2205m
31
AK
5,306 / 4.7227m
77
WA
18,126 / 3.2832m
55 ID
7,319 / 2.7179m
56 MT
3,431 / 3.9*142m
81 ND
1,440 / 5.655m
24 MN
9,573 / 5.1438m
17 WI
22,690 / 3.2*890m
73 MI
50,326 /2.4*2.06b
1.19
OR
13,855 / 1.1684m
1.06 NV
13,552 / 5222m
43 SD
3,302 / 1.7*74m
41 IA
9,419 / 6.1313m
38 IL
45,305 / 0.41.12b
51 IN
26,249 / 0.6649m
40
CA
171,444 / 2.3*8.8b
31
AZ
37,800 / 5.3895m
77
UT
6,533 / 1.6324m
41 NE
4,472 / 1.5172m
28 MO
30,324 / 0.5586m
67 KY
22,402 / 12454m
35
NM
6,540 / 1.5*205m
31
CO
22,841 / 1.6599m
78
KS
8,756 / 0.7*312m
40 AR
14,314 / 4.3314m
46 TN
26,838 / 4.2619m
41
OK
25,918 /1.2*461m
51 LA
37,718 / 1.9552m
46
TX
171,790 /0.2*3.3b
51
AL
29,412 / 4.1*388m
23MS
22,335 / 6227m
30
OH
50,730 / 3.21.76b
69
WV
6,056 / 5.6171m
36
VA
38,555 / 5.11.14b
60
GA
55,205 / 4.6998m
50
NY
62,620 / 1.1*2.62b
73
PA
46,028 / 3.71.64b
81
DE
7,081 / 1.7*240m
1.00
NJ
26,822 / 2*1.47b
67
NC
38,425 / 2.61.08b
33
SC
24,217 / 2.5444m
49
VT
2,132 / 3.7111m
1.37
CT
20,784 / 1.1661m
1.03
NH
2,991 / 6.692m
73
ME
2,144 / 1.1122m
49
MA
11,364 / 31.14b
98
RI
3,807 / 0.7157m
83
MD
23,342 / 1.71.08b
74
FL
97,416 / 4.82.72b
66
AVERAGE COST OF INMATE PER DAY
1 IN 99
$67.55253,300 inmates for drug offenses
$17,110,415a day to imprison drug users with an average sentence of 3 & 1/2 years
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