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Despite nearly 5% of the world's population, the United States accounts for nearly 25% of the world's prison population. Since 1970, our imprisoned population has increased by 700% - Today there are 3 million people in prison and prison far beyond population growth and crime

Percentage of 1 in 3 black men born today, 1 in 6 Latin American men - 1 in 17 white men. At the same time, women are the fastest growing country in the United States.

In the federal prison system as a whole, twice the number of people waiting for a trial are sitting in local prisons and are considered innocent. Every year, 650,000 men and women nationwide are returning from prison to the community. They face about 50,000 federal, state, and regional legal regulations that make reintegration difficult

Our prison system costs taxpayers an annual fee of $ 80 billion. This money is not used to further harm the community, it is used to build a community. Investment rather than imprisonment is a way to improve our security.

A quarter of the black children born in the era of mass imprisonment will have parents in jail which will limit their parents' average income to 40% of their lifetime. The imprisonment cycle virtually puts people in the feedback loop that are costly at all stages, including arrest, litigation costs, fine, parole release, unemployment, working hours, eviction, and almost impossible to resolve poverty. Even so, even those who are not imprisoned themselves will pay for imprisonment. Visits of spouses in prison (including time loss and spending), exaggerated chip invoices, very expensive phone bills, waste of time spent on travel, court schedule and meeting fees, and family members Litigation expense made not to be

There are many academic and popular works trying to understand the reasons for "mass imprisonment" in the United States. For a while, it was widely believed that "drug war brought a lot of imprisonment." This view has recently been challenged precisely by academics and authors, to the point that anti-narratives are formed, such as "fighting drugs is not related to mass prisons". To be clear, I think that this is not the intention of those scholars and writers. And I think that a simple story "Drug war leads to mass imprisonment" is a good thing. Drug offenders do not seem to be the most important group if you want to analyze only "the challenge to quantitative evidence.-" Containment rate "- the number of people imprisoned at one point - only.