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The amount of money that American taxpayers spend on prisons has never been greater, and the fraction of the American population held in prison has tripled during the last 15 years, as has national prison capacity. Yet the expected punishment of violent criminals has declined, and violent crime flourishes at intolerably high levels. The seeming paradox of more prisons and less punishment for violent criminals, which means less public safety, is explained by the war on drugs. That war has gravely undermined the ability of America's penal institutions to protect the public. As prisons are filled beyond capacity with nonviolent "drug criminals" (many of them first offenders), violent repeat offenders are pushed out the prison doors early, or never imprisoned in the first place.

David B. Kopel is research director of the Independence Institute in Golden, Colorado, and an associate policy analyst of the Cato Institute. A former assistant attorney general for the state of Colorado, he is the author of The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy (Cato/Prometheus, 1992), which was named Book of the Year by the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology.

 

THE PRISON SOCIETY
 
In the U.S. today, more than six and a half million adults are in the correctional system: currently behind bars, on parole or on probation. Of these:


2.1 million are behind bars (jail or prison) 4 million are on probation, 725,527 are on parole

Background:

Since 1980, the number of adults in the corrections system quadrupled.

The 6.5 million adults in the system today represent 3.2 percent of the adult population in the U.S.

Between 1925 and 1973, the U.S. incarceration rate remained fairly steady, about 110 per 100,000 Americans (.11%). From 1975 to 2000, incarceration rates rose sharply. Today, incarceration rates seemed to have leveled off-but the United States continues to have the highest rate of incarceration in the world: 1.03% of the adult population.


 
More than 10 million American children have experienced the incarceration of one or both parents

Currently, 1.5 million children have a parent in prison. Each year, some 60,000 women are convicted of felony drug offenses. In 2000, more than one million women were under the supervision of the criminal justice system

MOST INCARCERATED PARENTS

 

ARE MEN.
 

However, the war on drugs sent greater numbers of women, customarily the primary caretakers of children, to prison.
 


 


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