The incarceration rate is six-hundred-twenty-eight people per 100,000 and estimated the percentage to be 0.628% within all the whole state (Wagner, Peter.) "States of Incarceration: The Global Context." States of Incarceration: The Global Context. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. Michigan has a higher incarceration rate than Russia and if Michigan was a country it would have double the number of inmates put in jail more often than Russia does; "I hope that someday, fewer prisons are needed, but the reality today is that more prisons and more inmates are a regrettable but seemingly inescapable fact of life" (Engler). Also, there is really no emotional cost to the victims , and their family. More money goes to prisons than schools "We spend almost $70 billion annually to place adults in prison and jails, to confine youth in detention centers, and to supervise 7.3 million individuals on probation and parole" …show more content…
The percent of African-Americans from the 1930s to 2000s is 260% (Wagner,Peter). In addition, New York City imprisonment rate has dropped from 1990s to 2009s. The imprisonment rate had declined twenty-eight percent."New York City had declined by twenty-eight percent" (Paterline). New York is a every expensive state, and probably that’s why the imprisonment rate is not as high. Furthermore, New York was every dangerous to be in during the 1970s and the 1980s."Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, New York City was a dangerous place" (Paterline). In fact New York City, compared to the United States as a whole, had significantly lower rates of crime and correctional supervision by