Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie & Prisons Cost Interactive

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Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 688,000 people released every year include those getting out of local jails? Frustrating questions like these abound because our systems of federal, state, local, and other types of confinement — and the data collectors that keep track of them — are so fragmented. There is a lot of interesting and valuable research out there, but definitional issues and incompatibilities make ithard to get the big picture for both people new to criminal justice and for experienced policy wonks.

There are almost 15,000 children behind bars whose “most serious offense” wasn’t a crime.

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie.html

Interactive Map Shows How Much Prisons Cost in America
More than 2.3 million Americans are behind bars in local, state and federal prisons — a staggering number that makes the United States the country with the world's highest incarceration rate
Maintaining such large prison populations has a high cost that falls on taxpayers. The Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization, published a study in 2012 that revealed exactly how much state prisons cost in 40 American states (10 declined to participate). Now, a group of designers have created an interactive map that lays out the study's findings.

http://mashable.com/2014/05/05/prison-map-interactive/#GvqCeQABkSqO

Greed has no boundaries as private prisons need prisoners to make money with “private” meaning little or no over-site making cruel and unusual punishment hidden from the public.