Still, many private industries and public agencies continue to profit from mass incarceration. Private prisons are the corrupt heart of mass incarceration: Less than 8% of all incarcerated people are held in private prisons the vast majority are in publicly-owned prisons and jails.So why has the United States made a big business out of mass incarceration? A recently released report from Prison Policy Initiative studied how many and where the largest numbers of incarcerated persons were, but also took a deeper look at the "why" of mass incarceration, examining 8 common myths perpetuated about the staggering incarceration rate in the U.S. Roughly 1.9 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. It is not only the country with the highest incarceration rate worldwide, but it is also home to the largest number of incarcerated persons. The United States incarcerates more of it's population than any country in the world.
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