History Continued
Representing just 5 percent of the world’s population, we now hold 25 percent of its
Inmates. The “tough on crime” politics of the 1980s and 1990s fueled an explosion in Incarceration rates. By the close of 2010, America had 1,267,000 people behind bars in State prisons, 744,500 in local jails, and 216,900 in federal facilities—more than 2.2 Million people locked in cages. |
The ACLU believes that together we can cut that number in half by 2020.” With the fast speed that the incarceration rate has grown we see there isn’t justice to those juveniles who committed a crime at a young age and are now serving life sentences. Crime has been around for years and with crime being advertised on T.V every hour is not helping this justice system.