Posted on May 1, 2014, by Brandon Crawford
At the end of 2012, about 1 in 35 adults in the United States (approximately 6.94 million people) were supervised by state or federal correctional systems.1
The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world: 716 per 100,000 of the national population.2 Working with Visual.ly and the Prison Policy Initiative, Hank Green of vlogbrothers composed this engaging and informative video about mass incarceration in the United States:
