I read that ‘Florida has 130 prisons that hold more than 100,000 inmates’ is this common across the USA?
(The details came from a yahoo news item about ‘US kids ‘were zapped’ on prison visits’ )
There are so many people in prison, surely this in not common across the US. Are there states where there are so few prisons that they outsource their corrections system to another state?
on top of that, am I right in understanding that a person with a criminal record cannot vote in the US?
Florida is a relatively “high crime” state, though it’s not the worst. It also has a large population. All you asked varies by state. Some states have low crime rates, and some states don’t prosecute petty crimes like possession of a small amount of marijuana. I haven’t heard of a state outsourcing a prison stay to another state. I think they are more likely to reduce prison overcrowding by letting out some offenders. Unfortunately they don’t always let out the ones they should let out. Like if there’s an elderly inmate who murdered someone back in 1939 and is serving a life sentence, they’d keep him in but let out a young crack-head who’ll go right back to a life of crime.