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31,928 incarcerated in Maryland prisons and jails (The Sentencing Project, n.d.). More than 2.3 million people incarcerated nationwide (Peter Wagner, Bernadette Rabuy, 2017). The United States makes up about 5% of the world’s population but has 21% of the world’s prisoners (NAACP, n.d.) – quite astonishing statistics considering that forty years ago, there were only about 350,000 people in prison (Alexander, Michelle, 2014). This phenomenon is called mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is an ongoing issue created by the War on Drugs, crime, and institutionalized racism.

What is known about the correctional population in the United States over the past decade?

Did you know in 2014 roughly 2.4 million people were locked up in jail and the number has increased ever since, local jails are run by the local jurisdictions. Prisons or penitentiary are run by the state or federal government. Almost 688,000 people are released from jail each year.

B. Rates are often used, instead of absolute numbers, to determine how frequently a population or demographic event is occurring—rates show how common an event is. Rates also make it possible to compare countries that vary greatly in

In any given year now, incarceration rates has tripled with approximately 13 million people introduced to American jails in any given year. This increase in the prison population far outpaced the crime rate and the US population growth. Today, America has around 5% of the world’s population but a quarter of the world’s prison population.

The total Department of Defense population, including active duty and civilian personnel approximately 150,000 in an area with a total population of 1.6 million.

The number increases up to 11.1 million people. We cannot believe tons of people are currently living here unauthorized. The reason is because they want to have a better life for themselves and for their families. They want to get rid of the poorness in their countries and want to have a bright future for their kids. That’s why they cross the countries without any reasons. Therefore, the population of America increases a lot every year. From my researching, the statics population was changing too much from 1990 to present. Report from CIS, “During the 1990s, 700,000 illegal aliens on average entered each year. And that number increased to 817,000 by 1998 and to nearly one million in 1999. The total number of illegals living in the country does not grow by this amount because each year some illegals already in the country are given legal status, while others return home on their own or get deported.”

Based on the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 319 million people in the United States of America. Of the 319 million people, a little over thirteen percent are African-American, seventeen percent are Latino and Hispanic, and nearly sixty three percent are White, non-Hispanic. Although the white population is nearly triple of any other ethic population in the U.S., the incarceration statistics show numbers that are drastically different and are alarming to say the least.

people per year in either pretrial or sentenced categories. In the U.S jails today most

After decades of increasing incarceration rates in the United States, it appears that the number of individuals in jail or prison has begun to decline. States such as New York have managed to reduce their prison rates by thousands of prisoners over the past couple of years. According to Families against Mandatory Minimums, New York state prison population declined by 17% from 2000 to 2009, which is about 71,000 persons to 59,000 persons (FAMM - Law Enforcement, 2014).

According to Migration Policy institute, the Census Bureau's 2009 American Community Survey, the US immigrant population was 38,517,234, or 12.5 percent of the total US population. They also state that nearly one-quarter of the 7.9 million children under 17 in 2009 had at least one immigrant parent. It is important to note that these

people today. One in 31 adults in the United States is in jail, prison, on probation or parole.

Prisons where essentially build to accommodate a number of prisoners but over the years it has reach over capacity. Today in the United States there are approximately 193,468 federal inmates that consisting of the Bureau of Prisons Custody, private managed facilities and other facilities. The inmates ages range from 18- 65 with the median age being in their late 30’s. This number is counting both male and female population with male being 93.3% of inmates and females being 6.7%. The number of inmates has steadily increase since 1980 with only having approximately less than 50,000 but today the number has gone more up. Drug offenses are the highest number for inmate’s imprisonment, the next highest offense would be weapons, explosives and arson; immigration and miscellaneous fall next in lines. The number for the other offenses such as robbery, extortion, fraud, bribery, burglary, larceny, property offenses and other offenses are lower. Overcrowding prison has become problematic as the prison population continue to increase leading to proper care and attention for prisoners.

The U.S. government currently has about 2 million people incarcerated in the nations’ prison system. There are about 1.7 million more people legally enslaved in the prison system today than there were before slavery was supposedly abolished. The U.S. has only 5% of the

“In June 2012, approximately 155,163,00 people were in the labor force (those actively employed or seeking employment). With a total U.S. working-age population of approximately 243 million individuals, the labor force participation rate currently stands at 63.8 percent. Out of those 155 million individuals in the labor force, 142,415,00 are currently employed, with unemployment hovering around 8.2 percent”.