By 2015, the federal and state inmate population in the United States was more than 1.4 million.
Though the United States represents only 5 percent of the world’s population, the number of incarcerated people in the United States represents nearly 25 percent of the world’s prison population.
Do we imprison too many people? Why do you feel our prison population is so high? Which populations are most represented in prisons and why?
