Imprisonment Of Women In The United States

The high rate of imprisonment in the United StatesThe United States is known for its crowded prisons. While the population of the United States is only about 5% of the world population, it houses more than 20% of the incarcerated people in the world (Campbell, Michael, Matt and Joshua, 183). The 1980s saw a dramatic change in the nature of crime laws and the number of people being imprisoned (Kubrin, Charis and Carroll, 18). At the start of that…