With a prison population of over 2 million people at any given time, the United States incarcerates more individuals per capita than any other country on the face of the planet. This incarceration rate has resulted in over 70 million adults having a criminal record in the United States today.
Let those numbers sink in for a minute. Approximately one in every three adults is saddled with a criminal record in this country. A country that houses more than 20% of the total number of incarcerated people around the world despite having only ~4% of the world’s population.
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