What is unusual in American prisons Bashny.Net

In US prisons is contained almost a quarter of all prisoners in the world. Fighters for freedom around the world is not too hurry to release the freedom of its own citizens. How and under what conditions the Americans manage to contain more than 2 million prisoners read in continuation of the post.





Currently in the United States behind bars are 2.2 million people, representing 25% of the total number of prisoners in the world - a bit much for the country, which accounts for only 5% of the world population. Since the 1980s. the crime rate in the US has tripled. Why is the prison became so popular punishment in the US prison system?
If the number of prisoners is strictly determined by the number of court verdicts, the figure in America today would have been much lower than in some European countries. However, largely due to the laws of the appointment of certain penalties - such as mandatory minimum sentence and the "law of the three crimes" - the prison system of the United States is the most standardized, objective and demanding in the world. After the adoption of the "law of the three crimes," the number of life sentences in the US grew in 10 years by as much as 83%, although the level of violent crime actually decreased significantly. In this regard, the question arises: why the prison system ignores this statistic? The answer you will find in this article, which sets out the dire reality of American prisons ...