Die Expansion und der Niedergang des amerikanischen Gefängnissystems (1970-2022)
Von Deltarianus
Die Expansion und der Niedergang des amerikanischen Gefängnissystems (1970-2022)
Von Deltarianus
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And yes, prisons are closing because the number of criminals is falling rapidly.
1.6 million in 2008. 1.2 million in 2023. 660,000 expected in 2035.
This has been due to a collapse in adult criminal offending and youth offending.
So one map shows openings for a thirty year span. Then the second shows closings for the subsequent 22 years. Am I assuming that there were no closings from 1970 to 2000 and no openings from 2000 to 2022? What percent of total beds does a drop of 127,000 beds equal? It doesn’t seem like much overall. But this seems like good news if people just aren’t committing crimes, but could also be bad news if jurisdictions are just ignoring some facets of law enforcement or prosecution.
This isn’t exactly a great representation of the point. Let me see Closures from 1970 to 2000 as well, and openings after 2000
What’s 863,198 minus 128,996?
This could be unintentionally misleading. Utah did close the Utah State Prison in 2022, but that’s because it built a new facility at a new location that also opened in 2022. So, it didn’t gain or lose any, they just moved. Not sure about other states on here.
This is so incredibly misleading and that feels intentional.
There is a lot of data missing here to be useful and informative.
Still the US is no 1 on incarcerated people as total, more than china that is „authoritarian“, bigger and has less crime. 5th by ratio per 100k inhabitants, just below beacons of freedom Turkmenistan, Cuba, El salvador.
The sad part is that with all that incarceration the US is still far away from the crime rates of Europe.
It seems like just telling us how many beds there were open in each year is a better representation than openings and closures. Maybe beds per 100,000 population because there are a lot more Americans now but still openings and closures feels less than clear
North Florida has more prisons than that.
1/4 of the worlds imprisoned population are here in the US.
4-5% of the total world population live in the US.
These are the numbers we need to look at.
I don’t think that this will change the fact that the USA has the highest % of incarcerated people in the developed world and 5th worldwide.
I believe the subtext states this excludes “non-traditional” prisons, and references state and federal prisons.
I don’t think this shows the proliferation of private for profit prisons, which also seems to point to how this data might not accurately represent the state of the carceral system.