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Incarceration in the US: Dissecting the World's Largest Prison Population

INCARCERATION IN THE U.S. Dissecting The World's Largest Prison Population WHY IS THE U.S. PRISON POPULATION SO LARGE U.S. Crime Rate |2009 10,639,000 TOTAL CRIMES 6,327,000 Larceny / Theft 9,321,000 PROPERTY CRIMES 2,199,000 Burglary 795,000 Motor Vehicle Theft 1,316,000 VIOLENT CRIMES 15,200 Murder 807,000 Aggravated Assault 408,000 Robbery 88,100 Forcible Rape *Numbers were rounded-off. Violent & Non-Violent Crimes THE TREND 2007- 2011 VIOLENT CRIME OFFENSE Estimated Number of Offenses 1,440,000 1,400,000 1,360,000 1,320,000 1,280,000 1,240,000 1,200,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 PROPERTY CRIME OFFENSE | Estimated Number of Offenses 10,200,000 10,000,000 9,800,000 9,600,000 9,400,000 9,200,000 9,000,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 WORLD'S PRISON POPULATION PER 100,000 OF NATIONAL POPULATION 8889 THE TOP 10 THE U.S. RATE | 2011 716 :United States 716 "The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world" St. Kitts & Nevis Seychelles Virgin Is (US) 649 641 539 Rwanda 527 Cuba 510 PER 100,000 OF NATIONAL POPULATION Anguilla (UK) Russian Federation 487 487 Virgin Is.(UK) Belarus c. 460 438 U.S.Prison Population|2011 1,598,780 TOTAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS IN STATE & FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AT THE CLOSE OF 2011 MALE 1,487,393 FEMALE 111,387 THE NUMBERS IN A CENTURY Change of population per decade | 1990 - 2000 600,000 532,448 500,000 424,006 400,000 300.000 200,000 119,545 100,000 47,494 44,253 46,830 11,665 13,224 -1,583 -16,524 -20,000 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 TYPES OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY U.S. SENTENCED PRISONERS December 31, 2010 MURDER 166,700 ASSAULT 146,800 OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT 90,600 PROPERTY 249,500 OTHER 43,400 U.S. Prison Population|By Race December 31, 2010 550,000 500,000 450,000 400,000 350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 518,763 150,000 289,429 468,528 100,000 HISPANIC BLACK WHITE TOP 5 U.S. STATES WITH LARGEST PRISONER POPULATION December 31, 2010 149,569 42,940 CALIFORNIA MICHIGAN 55,436 NEW YORK 172,224 103,055 TEXAS FLORIDA ECONOMIC IMPACT OF U.S. MASS INCARCERATION "United States accounts for 5% of the world's population, but locks up nearly 25% of the world's prisoners." $53.3B 6X STATE SPENDING ON PRISONS HIGHER HIGHER EDUCATION SPENDING "Corrections spending currently accounts for $53.3 billion in state budget expenditures nationwide. ECONOMIC IMPACT "During the last two decades, state spending on prisons grew by 127%, six times the rate of spending on higher education." OF DEATH PENALTY $307,692,308 Average Cost per Death Row Execution (State of California, 2011) • $4B $1B California has spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978. The following are suggested solutions being offered by California could save $1 billion over 5 years by replacing the death penalty with permanent imprisonment. various organizations that might help curb the problem of prison overpopulation in the United States. COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE U.S. PRISON SYSTEM The figures below are from a recidivism study that took place over a 20-year span at the Shelby County Correction Center in Memphis, TN. WITHOUT TREATMENT TREATMENT WITH 94% 81% were re-arrested were re-arrested TREATMENT PROGRAMS 82% 61% returned to prison returned to prison Diverting lower-level offenders into treatment programs such as motivational interviewing can help curb recidivism and lower the prison overpopulation. Inventive and cost-efficient ways to teach criminals societal skill can help avert an estimated $1 billion in new prison costs. If the study is applied to national standards, it would mean: - http://moral-reconation-therapy.com/Resour ces/CBTR-%2019_1%202010GL. pdf Yearly 2,940,000 21% • 147,000 20-year Špan of national incarceration rate will be curbed. total number of ex-offenders who would not return to prison over 20-year span approximation. released offenders would not go back to prison. "Based on the national average statistices of 700,000 prisoners released annually. Brought to you by: tp//www.censu gov/compendastatablcats/law.enforcement.courts.prisons/crimes.and.crime.rates.Mml SYTARCRIMETREND http://www.fbi.gow/about uslejs/ucoerime in theas/201Verime in the-us. 201Vviolent crimelviolent crime htp//www.fbi.gowabout usejs/ucoerime in the as/201Venime in theus. 201Vpnperty crime/pmperty crime uS. VS WORLD PRISON POPULATION http://www.prisonstudies.orp/inta/warldbrieVwpb.stats.php?area alcategory.wb.poprate US. PRISON POPULAION DATA http//is gou/content/pub/pdppdt http://www.justicepolicy.org/uploads/justicepolcy/documents/punishing.dec ade.pdt http://cjdegreeonline.bu.edu/ ECONOMICIMCT http://aticles.com.com/2011 04-07/apinion/jealous.prison.re form.1.pison populations prison spending aflenders from state prisos?.s.PM OPINION http//www.statebudgetsolutions.orgisues/detailcourts comectiens DEATHPR tp//www.deathpenalty.org/article.php?id-42 WHAI S NEXT ttp//moral reconation therapy.con/Resources/ CBTR %2019.12020OGL pdf htp//wwwpewstates.arg/ CREDIT Pickpocket, Proletkut Graphik from The Noun Project: Institution, Thibault Geftroy from The Noun Praject OTHER / UNSPECIFIED 7,900 OTHER 43,400 ROBBERY 185,800 142,500 150,500 ORDER PUBLIC VIOLENT 237,000 DRUG MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT 15,000 OTHER 27,700 MANSLAUGHTER 21,500 FRAUD 30 800 LARCENY 45,900 BURGLARY 130,000 COMPARATIVE DATA REFERENCES

Incarceration in the US: Dissecting the World's Largest Prison Population

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With the third largest population in the entire world, it should be expected that the United States has their share of crimes and criminals. It turns out, however, that the American prison systems ar... e doing more than their share of the lifting in the justice system. No nation incarcerates more of its citizens than America, with a full one percent of the population behind bars at any given time with about ten million crimes committed annually. What's Behind The Numbers The breakdown of this crime rate suggests that the amount of violent crimes are far fewer than those of property crimes. Only one in ten crimes on the books are for violent crimes like assault, while the vast majority are property crimes like larceny and auto theft. The ratio of violent crime committed compared to property crime is likely still high due to the fact that minor crimes like petty theft often go unrecognized or unreported. Violence In Crime Of the one million violent crimes committed annually, well over half involve aggravated (but non-lethal) assaults like a domestic disturbance or a public brawl. One third are robberies. Just under one hundred thousand forcible rapes are committed along with fifteen thousand murders. This means that only about one percent of all violent crime involves murder -- though the different definitions of murder and manslaughter makes for variance in the crime figures. Crime And Punishment While American crime rates have been on a steady decline in the past decade, despite rising population levels, the prison rate has climbed steeply. With a million and a half men along with over one hundred thousand women in the prison system, the rate of incarceration has tripled since the 1970s. Though the "war on drugs" is often blamed for prison overcrowding, only about one in six convicts are incarcerated for narcotics, with about half of the total population incarcerated for violent crime.