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US prison
The United States ranks first in the number of inmates in prisons.
There are now 2.26 million prisoners in the United States. Accordingly, the content is costly,
about 68 million dollars every day to taxpayers.
Unprecedented 2, 2 million Americans are living behind bars.
Average average term of imprisonment up to three years. It is nine months longer than it was in 1990.
48% of prisoners sit for drugs
According to experts, if the state and federal prisons to release half of their non-violent offenders, it will save the state nearly $ 17 billion a year. But is society?
Jail is not always terrible. Most prisoners spent most of the morning at work, this is either the work of cleaning the premises or in the kitchen or garbage collection.
Inmates in maximum security prisons typically prepared an hour before lunch for walks in the prison yard, watching TV, socializing or to call family.
In some prisons, inmates may get an education or to take a course to get rid of drug addiction
But let's be honest, the prison - it is unpleasant place. A 2006 study showed that half of all prisoners have mental health problems.
About 10% of the prisoners were raped while in jail
Prisoners often join gangs, not because of their own desires, and because of the desire to survive
Modern block for two
Worst of all things in California, where a federal judge recently threatened to Governor Jerry Brown for contempt of court. Since that does nothing to reduce the growth of the population in California prisons.
Visually, overcrowding in the California Women's Prison (three-tiered bunks out boxes)
In order to solve the problem in the state of California must build one new prison a year !!!
Gangs ...
In the city of Maricopa, Arizona, Sheriff took decisive measures to deal with the costs of prison overcrowding. He identified hundreds of army tents 1993 to create a prison in the air, as the staff does not have time with the construction of prisons.
The tent jail is currently more than 2,000 people. The temperature inside the tent in the middle of summer passes for 40.
Prisons in the United States spend an average of $ 2 40 per day for food for the prisoners. But in the same tent jail food costs 15 to 40 cents a day, and there are only fed twice a day.
Go to work in chains ...
About 80,000 prisoners all over the country sitting alone. From 25,000 in jail Category SuperMax, where serving sentences most dangerous criminals
Alone, where sit the most dangerous criminals of the country
Suicide accounts for nearly a third of all deaths in prison. More than half of these suicides occur in solitary confinement.
Source: bigpicture.ru
There are now 2.26 million prisoners in the United States. Accordingly, the content is costly,
about 68 million dollars every day to taxpayers.
Unprecedented 2, 2 million Americans are living behind bars.
Average average term of imprisonment up to three years. It is nine months longer than it was in 1990.
48% of prisoners sit for drugs
According to experts, if the state and federal prisons to release half of their non-violent offenders, it will save the state nearly $ 17 billion a year. But is society?
Jail is not always terrible. Most prisoners spent most of the morning at work, this is either the work of cleaning the premises or in the kitchen or garbage collection.
Inmates in maximum security prisons typically prepared an hour before lunch for walks in the prison yard, watching TV, socializing or to call family.
In some prisons, inmates may get an education or to take a course to get rid of drug addiction
But let's be honest, the prison - it is unpleasant place. A 2006 study showed that half of all prisoners have mental health problems.
About 10% of the prisoners were raped while in jail
Prisoners often join gangs, not because of their own desires, and because of the desire to survive
Modern block for two
Worst of all things in California, where a federal judge recently threatened to Governor Jerry Brown for contempt of court. Since that does nothing to reduce the growth of the population in California prisons.
Visually, overcrowding in the California Women's Prison (three-tiered bunks out boxes)
In order to solve the problem in the state of California must build one new prison a year !!!
Gangs ...
In the city of Maricopa, Arizona, Sheriff took decisive measures to deal with the costs of prison overcrowding. He identified hundreds of army tents 1993 to create a prison in the air, as the staff does not have time with the construction of prisons.
The tent jail is currently more than 2,000 people. The temperature inside the tent in the middle of summer passes for 40.
Prisons in the United States spend an average of $ 2 40 per day for food for the prisoners. But in the same tent jail food costs 15 to 40 cents a day, and there are only fed twice a day.
Go to work in chains ...
About 80,000 prisoners all over the country sitting alone. From 25,000 in jail Category SuperMax, where serving sentences most dangerous criminals
Alone, where sit the most dangerous criminals of the country
Suicide accounts for nearly a third of all deaths in prison. More than half of these suicides occur in solitary confinement.
Source: bigpicture.ru
