Co-produced with Treading Softly and Beyond Saving
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rates of any developed nation and according to the Bureau of Justice; the U.S. sends roughly 700 per 100,000 people to jail every year.
This results in extremely lopsided additional statistics like the one that shows the US while having just about 5% of the total global population, also has 25% of the world's prisoners. That background may be distasteful and certainly does not invoke the warm, fuzzy feeling people develop while investing in solar panels or making a donation to UNICEF,