America: The great prison nation
Journal article
Teague, Michael 2008. America: The great prison nation. Prison Service Journal.
Authors | Teague, Michael |
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Abstract | America leads the world in custody. The country’s 5,000 jails and prisons hold a staggering 2.24 million prisoners. Though home to just 1 in 20 of the global population, the USA incarcerates a quarter of the world’s prisoners. America’s proportional imprisonment rate of is 6–10 times greater than that of most developed, industrialised nations. In a typical year, some 13.5 million US citizens (out of a total population of 300 million) spend time in either jail or prison.This discussion outlines multiple areas of concern about the sheer scale and functioning of the US prison system, framed through the prism of UK comparisons. |
Keywords | prisons; mass incarceration; America |
Year | 2008 |
Journal | Prison Service Journal |
Publisher | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/608612 |
hdl:10545/608612 | |
Publication dates | 2008 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 May 2016, 15:53 |
Contributors | Teesside University |
File | File Access Level Open |
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