American prisons (22 photos)

The United States ranks first in the world in terms of the number of prisoners in prisons. There are currently 2,260,000 prisoners in the United States. Accordingly, maintenance is not cheap, about $68 million, which taxpayers pay daily.

An unprecedented 2.2 million Americans are living behind bars.

The average prison term has increased to three years. This is nine months longer than it was in 1990.

48% of prisoners are imprisoned for drugs

Experts estimate that if state and federal prisons released half of all their nonviolent offenders, it would save the government nearly $17 billion a year. But is society ready?

Prison isn't always terrible. Most prisoners usually spend most of the morning at work, either cleaning the premises or working in the kitchen or picking up trash.

Inmates in maximum security prisons typically have an hour before lunch to exercise in the prison yard, watch TV, socialize, or call family.

In some prisons, inmates can receive education or take courses to help them get rid of drug addiction.

But let's be honest, prison is a nasty place. A 2006 study found that half of all prisoners have mental health problems.

About 10% of prisoners were raped while behind bars

Prisoners often join gangs, not because of their own desire, but because of the desire to survive

Modern block for two

The situation is worst in California, where a federal judge recently threatened Governor Jerry Brown for contempt of court. Because he does nothing to reduce the population growth in California's prisons.

Visually, overcrowding in the California women's prison (three-tier bunks outside the boxes)

In order to solve the problem in California, the state must build one new prison per year!!!

Gangs...

In Maricopa, Arizona, sheriffs have taken decisive action to combat the costs of jail overcrowding. He allocated hundreds of army tents in 1993, to create prisons in the air, because. The state is behind on prison construction.

There are currently more than 2,000 people in the tent prison. The temperature inside the tent in the middle of summer exceeds 40.

US prisons spend an average of $2.40 per day on food for prisoners. But in the same tent prison, food costs from 15 to 40 cents a day and they are fed only twice a day.

They go to work in chains...

About 80,000 prisoners across the country are in solitary confinement. Of the 25,000, he is in SuperMax prisons, where the most dangerous criminals serve their sentences.

Solitary confinement, where the most dangerous criminals in the country are imprisoned

Suicide accounts for nearly a third of all deaths in prison. More than half of these suicides occur in solitary confinement.