Jens Soering

Expensive way to make bad people worse - an essay on prison reform from an Jens Soering

The United States has more people locked away in prison per capita than any other country. Prison building is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and in some states more money is spent on prisons and prisoners than on education. Nearly one quarter of all prison inmates worldwide are housed in U. S. jails or penitentiaries, even though the United States has only five percent of the world’s population.