By almost every measure, the American prison system is broken. For a nation that claims one in every 20 human beings on Earth, it also claims one in every four prisoners. Approximately one in every 107 American adults is currently behind bars, producing both a rate of incarceration and an actual prison population that outpace any other nation in
America’s Prison System Is A Disaster
Overcrowded, underfunded, rife with abuse and filled with nonviolent offenders — it doesn’t get much worse than U.S. prisons.