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Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States. In 2021, over five million people were under supervision by the criminal justice system, [2] [3] with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails.
- List of countries by incarceration rate
This is an alphabetical list of countries and some dependent...
- List of countries by incarceration rate
Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty against their will. Imprisonment could be given for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered "false imprisonment".
According to the World Prison Brief the United States in 2021 had the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000. [1] [2] Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations.
The notion of prisoners being incarcerated as part of their punishment and not simply as a holding state until trial or hanging, was at the time revolutionary. His views influenced the establishment of the first prisons used as criminal rehabilitation centers.
Incarceration in the United States is one of the basic ways of punishment for crimes committed in the United States of America. In 2023, more than five million people were being supervised by the criminal justice system. [2] [3] Almost two million people were in state or federal prisons and in local jails.
According to Statistics Canada, as of 2018/2019 there were a total of 37,854 adult offenders incarcerated in Canadian federal and provincial prisons on an average day for an incarceration rate of 127 per 100,000 population.
