A Beginner's Guide to How the U.S. Prison System Actually Works
Approximately 25 percent of the world’s prison population is located in the United States, making the country the world leader in locking up its own people. Activists currently argue that mass incarceration not only perpetuates inequalities, but that the underpinnings of the prison system are racist, capitalist, sexist, colonialist, ableist, and transphobic.