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Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
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“Arrests and convictions have increased at such a torrid pace that
the states and federal government haven’t been able to build prisons fast enough to hold
all of their incoming prisoners. To keep up, they hired corporations to operate private
prisons for them. About 130,000 prisoners are held in these “for-profit” prisons (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2010:Table 6.32.2009). Actually, the United States
has even more prisoners than shown in Figure 6.2, since this total does not include jail
inmates. If we add them, the total comes to about 2.3 million people—about one out
of every 135 citizens. Not only does the United States have more prisoners than any
other country in the world but it also has a larger percentage of its population in prison
(Massoglia et al. 2013). Another way of putting this is that the United States has only
5 percent of the world’s population but about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners”
― Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
the states and federal government haven’t been able to build prisons fast enough to hold
all of their incoming prisoners. To keep up, they hired corporations to operate private
prisons for them. About 130,000 prisoners are held in these “for-profit” prisons (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 2010:Table 6.32.2009). Actually, the United States
has even more prisoners than shown in Figure 6.2, since this total does not include jail
inmates. If we add them, the total comes to about 2.3 million people—about one out
of every 135 citizens. Not only does the United States have more prisoners than any
other country in the world but it also has a larger percentage of its population in prison
(Massoglia et al. 2013). Another way of putting this is that the United States has only
5 percent of the world’s population but about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners”
― Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach
