US Prison Population

The US has 2 million people in prison.

• 200k federal, 1.4M state, 700k local jails (38% of those are convicted criminals, rest are still in pipeline)

• total "correctional" population goes up to 7.2m if you count probation and parole.

Driven by the War On Drugs?

• could dealers be made constructive Entrepreneur-s?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Coalition http://www.november.org/

http://www.nomoreprisons.org/

http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/index.php

http://www.bop.gov/locations/weekly_report.jsp

• Jun05'2008: 201,186 Federal inmates

http://www.csdp.org/research/

<http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking08/Pew Report.html>