Prison Industrial Complex

Year after the year the United States beats all other countries in having the highest rate of incarceration in the world. According to a 2018 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) over 2. 2 million adults were held behind bars at the end of 2016. People of color native Americans make up the majority of those imprisoned. George Szamuely, a senior fellow at The Global Policy Institute has researched incarceration trends in the US and abroad.