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The US prison complex: 2.2M incarcerated, $81B spent, ~10% of population affected
Citing Cicero Institute stats, Trung sizes the prison market: 2.2 million people incarcerated, government spending of $81 billion, and an estimated 20-30 million family members directly affected - roughly 10% of the US population.
$81000M
US government spending on the prison system · USD per year
“I mean, 2.2 million incarcerated. And what Marcus said was essentially when you go to prison, your whole family goes to prison, right? So 2.2 million times what— call it the average family is 4 or 5 people, maybe extend is 10. You're talking 20, 30 million people directly affected by the prison industrial complex, right? That's 10% of the US population. US expenditure, government, state and federal, spent $81 billion on the prison system.”
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