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Incarceration in Real Numbers

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There are more incarcerated people than members of almost any profession. There are more incarcerated people than military personnel. There are more incarcerated people than bus drivers, bar tenders, and hair dressers combined. [3] Mass incarceration may not spark the same public outcry as the murder of unarmed people by police, but it has destroyed an uncountably greater number of families. Imagine for a moment that George Floyd had been arrested instead of murdered. Given the maximum 20 year sentence for his alleged crime, he could have been imprisoned until age 66. The life expectancy for black men in America is 72 years. [14] What violence would he have faced in prison? What grief and shame would his six year old daughter endure, living her formative years without him? What sort of life could he hope to make, if he ever made it out? We would never know. He would have become just another forgotten convict, crushed by the system. You would not know his name. Millions in jail without

Incarceration in Real Numbers The actual number of Americans jailed or imprisoned, about 2.3 million Each icon represents one incarcerated person (about this page) scroll down The United States holds more people in jails and prisons than any other country by far, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of population. Incarcerated per 100,000 residents [ ] USA (698) El Salvador (590) Turkmenistan (552) Thailand (531) Rwanda (511) Cuba (510) Panama (401) Costa Rica (374) Cayman Islands (365) Russia (363) Belize (356) Brazil (348) Belarus (343) Nicaragua (332) Turkey (324) Puerto Rico (313)

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