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The United States has distinguished itself as the world’s largest incarcerator.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

The state quickly shed its status as America’s leading incarcerator, and was projected to reduce the prison population by 13 percent while saving $305 million in taxpayer money over the next decade.

From MSNBC • Jan. 23, 2020

FOR nearly 20 years, Louisiana has held an unwanted title: the top state incarcerator in the country that imprisons a greater share of its citizens than any other.

From Economist • Jul. 6, 2017

Today, with 2.3 million people locked up domestically, the US is the world’s largest incarcerator.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2017

But some analysts see inherent problems in a free market approach to prisons in the world's No. 1 incarcerator.

From Reuters • May 12, 2011