La popolazione carceraria negli Stati Uniti d'America è la più numerosa tra quelli degli Stati del mondo. (it)
In September 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world at 716 per 100,000 of the national population; by 2019 it had fallen to 419 in state and federal prisons per 100,000. Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world's population, it houses around 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around 74billionin2007accordingtotheU.S.BureauofJusticeStatistics(BJS).AccordingtotheJusticeExpendituresandEmploymentintheUnitedStates,2017reportreleasebyBJS,it′sestimatedthatcountyandmunicipalgovernmentsspentroughlyUS74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). According to the Justice Expenditures and Employment in the United States, 2017 report release by BJS, it's estimated that county and municipal governments spent roughly US74billionin2007accordingtotheU.S.BureauofJusticeStatistics(BJS).AccordingtotheJusticeExpendituresandEmploymentintheUnitedStates,2017reportreleasebyBJS,it′sestimatedthatcountyandmunicipalgovernmentsspentroughlyUS30 billion on corrections in 2017. As of their March 2020 publication, the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-profit organization for decarceration, estimated that in the United States, about 2.3 million people were or are currently incarcerated. Of those who were incarcerated, 1,291,000 people were in state prison, 631,000 in local jails, 226,000 in federal prisons, 44,000 in youth correctional facilities, 42,000 in immigration detention camps, 22,000 in involuntary commitment, 11,000 in territorial prisons, 2,500 in Indian Country jails, and 1,300 in United States military prisons. (en)
La popolazione carceraria negli Stati Uniti d'America è la più numerosa tra quelli degli Stati del mondo. (it)
In September 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world at 716 per 100,000 of the national population; by 2019 it had fallen to 419 in state and federal prisons per 100,000. Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world's population, it houses around 20 percent of the world's prisoners. Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). According to the Justice Expenditures and Employment in the Un (en)