1. What's the most surprising information in the infographic?

2. What questions do you have about incarceration in the US?

3. List two causes of the extraordinarily high rate of incarceration in the US:

4. List two consequences of our incarceration rate:

More Data

• Did you know that while the US makes up about 5% of the world's population, it accounts for 25% of the world's prisoners?

• Did you know that the US spends over $69 billion a year on our prison system?

• Did you know that 1/15 Black Americans is incarcerated?

• Did you know that it costs 4x as much to keep a prisoner in jail, than it costs to educate a child?