WhoÆs In Prison?
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With 2,166,260 inmates incarcerated in U.S. prisons, 1 out of every 143 Americans is now in jail, and even though the U.S. has only 5 percent of the worldÆs population it houses 25 percent of the worldÆs imprisoned population (Longley(2) 1). Many American states spend more on prison refurbishing, expansion and construction of new prisons than they do on education, Pennsylvania and California among them. After September 11, the number of non-citizen inmates began to escalate, with 88,776 non-citizens now in U.S. state and federal institutions (Longley(1) 1). The focus of this essay is to report on ôwhoö is in prison in the U.S.Perhaps an easier question than ôWhoÆs in jail?ö in the U.S. would be ôWhoÆs not in jail?ö The answer would be primarily white Americans. The U.S. prison system is not an equal opportunity housing institution. With 465 white inmates per 100,000 white males in the population, there are 2.5 times (1,231) more Hispanics per 100,000 Hispanic males in prison and nearly 8 times (3,40
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