Map Shows Which States Have the Most Prisoners

A handful of states are to blame for America's staggeringly high prison population.

Despite being the 'land of the free,' the U.S. remains the world leader when it comes to locking people up, with some 1.9 million people behind bars, according to a 2024 estimate by the Prison Policy Initiative.Even adjusted for population, the U.S. sits near the top of the list in terms of incarceration rates, with 614 individuals imprisoned for every 100,000 citizens.According to the think tank's global data, the U.S.

The state has one of the highest crime rates in the country, and some of the strictest sentencing guidelines, with a higher share of its prisoners serving life without the possibility of parole than any other state, according to advocacy group The Sentencing Project.However, Louisiana's prison population may not simply be the result of its crime rate and efforts to stem this.A January 2023 report from the U.S.

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