Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison
February 28th, 2008 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 _ one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world.
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