The Prison Population in America

[eridani]

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics...e_offenses.jsp

A staggering 46.5% if the US Prison population is made up of drug offenders. An astounding 86,080 people. 25% of the US Prison population is either Black or Hispanic.

Banking, Insurance and other Fraud? .4 % or 649 people.

In 2015, the annual cost of imprisonment to the US Taxpayer? $39 Billion.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. That's 46.5% of the Federal Prison population, not total US prisoners of which there are

over 2 million people.

Here is a link to the first US in depth photo study of US prisons done in 1967 'Conversations With the Dead' by esteemed photojournalist Danny Lyon. It's an old American problem....
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2015/july/02/danny-lyons-conversations-with-the-dead/

[eridani]

3. Prisoners other than federal ones are even more skewed toward drug offenders n/t

[Wilms]

2. ^