Incarceration is part of the American identity. More than one out of every 100 Americans is behind bars. The US has the largest prison population in the world, both in terms of the actual number of inmates and as a percentage of the total population.
My solution was to generate a conversation piece about the enormous prison problem plaguing the US led by a for profit prison system. It features the top twenty–five states with the highest average prison population and cost per inmate from a global view.
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