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American prisons are divided into six categories: under the jurisdiction of the state government welfare bureau; Under the jurisdiction of the Social Affairs Bureau of the state government; Under the jurisdiction of the State Public Security Bureau; Under the jurisdiction of the social affairs bureau and welfare bureau of the state government; Under the jurisdiction of an independent prison administration; Under the jurisdiction of the state government supervision Committee.

There are 5,000 prisons and detention centers in the United States, employing 420,000 prison guards and staff. According to criminal justice experts, the United States has the highest prison population and incarceration rate in the world (as of 20 15) due to severe sentencing, record number of drug criminals and high crime rate.

Criminal justice reform has become one of the urgent problems in contemporary America. Policymakers need to face up to the crisis of criminal justice. We must change this pessimistic situation.

There are 4,500 laws in the Federal Criminal Code, excluding the government's provisions on criminal punishment. The list of federal crimes is too long and vague, and people may unconsciously violate many federal laws in their daily work or business.

Extended data:

According to the survey of the U.S. Department of Education, from 1979 to 20 12, the expenditure of state and local governments on primary and secondary education increased by 107%, while the expenditure on punishment increased by 324%.

According to the latest report of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1 1 states spend more money on prisons and detention centers than on public universities. 1 1 states are Michigan, Oregon, Arizona, Vermont, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Delaware, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Today, the number of employees in the national prison system in the United States has exceeded the total number of employees in any Fortune 500 company in the world. In the 1990s, the United States spent about $30 billion to build new prisons.

Up to now, more than 30 billion dollars has been continuously invested in the operation and maintenance of prisons every year, and the total investment scale is close to seven times that of the United States in the education system, thus creating such a huge "prison GDP".

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-American Prison Organization