SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Prison Overcrowding, Human Rights Watch, Mandatory Sentencing
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Incarceration & inequality (cid:862)ma incarceration(cid:863) in the u : david garland, bruce we tern. Bruce western has defined (cid:373)ass i(cid:374)(cid:272)ar(cid:272)eratio(cid:374) as (cid:862)a le(cid:448)el of imprisonment so vast that it forges the collective experience of an e(cid:374)tire so(cid:272)ial group. (cid:863) Prison population in u. s. (state &federal prisons and local jails) at 2015 end was 2. 2 million people. Us makes up 5% of world population & has 21% of the (cid:449)orld"s priso(cid:374)ers. 1 in every 37 adults in the us, or 2. 7% of the adult population is under some form of correctional supervision. Expansive correctional system including jails, state & federal prisons, and parole. This population is dynamic: hundreds of thousands of people (mostly men) are released every year. More than two-thirds are rearrested within 3 years & half go back to prison. The largest group among the inmate population is young men who are high-school drop outs. Ams. consisted 2. 3 million, i. e. 34%, of the total 6. 8 million correctional population.
