Rather, government is spending more money for the jail department, more than the government spends on the university department.
Bhagavad-gita 9.5
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Melbourne, April 24, 1976
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2010 – about 0.7% of adults in the U.S. resident population. Additionally, 4,933,667 adults at year-end 2009 were on probation or on parole. In total, 7,225,800 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2009 – about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population. It estimated states spent a record $51.7 billion on corrections and incarcerating one inmate cost them, on average, $29,000 a year. There are 4,575 prisons in operation in the U.S., more than four times the number of second-place Russia at 1,029. In addition, there were 70,792 juveniles in juvenile detention in 2010. […]
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