Incarceration Rates in the United States

INCARCERATION RATES IN
THE UNITED STATES

OVERVIEW
• Incarceration in the United States and a
comparison with other modern States.
• Probable reasons that aid for such higher
rate of incarceration in the U.S.
• Methods that are considered to be useful in
reducing the incarceration rate.

INCARCERATION: ABOUT
• Incarceration means depriving a person of
his personal liberties.
• A form of punishment
• The scale of incarceration is measured by
way of a ratio of the number of people
present in the prison compared to the total
population of the society.

INCARCERATION
IN THE U.S.
• Main form of
Punishment as well
as Rehabilitation
system
• Largest prison
population in the
world
• Incarceration rate in
U.S. with 655
people to every
100,000 population