Prison detention in the United States prison system The Sentencing Project). With 1 in 100 adults detained, the United States boasts the world's most astonishing imprisonment rate (well ahead of Russia's rate of 635 per 100,000) and a record of about 25 percent of the world's population detained . populace. At present, this trend suggests that there will be no reversal of the situation. Similarly, approximately 800,000 inmates each year are currently released from penitentiaries and correctional facilities and placed in groups across the United States – most of them will be readmitted within three years. The astonishing evolution of detention in the United States and its degree of contrast with the past has produced some unique circumstances and conditions that were not previously observed or anticipated. These are not yet limited to prison facilitation, coercive portability and its personal effects, problems related to the reintegration of prisoners, a wide range of "imperceptible disciplines" and their consequences, and the effect of mass detention on minority groups, particularly Africans.

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