Here are Six Companies Who Get Rich off Prisoners
•FEBRUARY 21ST 2015
There are currently 2.4 million people in American prisons. This number has grown by 500% in the past 30 years. While the United States has only 5% of the world's population, it holds 25 percent of the world's total prisoners. In 2012, one in every 108 adults was in prison or in jail, and one in 28 children in the U.S. had a parent behind bars.
Why do we have so many people in prison?
