The figures show that 144 inmates a day-roughly 52,000 per year-are being added to our prisons and jails. The number of adults citizens in the system recently surpassed the two million mark. The majority of them, nearly 60 percent nationwide-are repeat offenders; in fact, repeat offenders accounts for the majority of the population growth, jumping by more than 54 percent in state prisons in the last decade alone.

Prison Statistics

The prison population began to skyrocket in 1973. Statistic show that we are building the equivalent of a 1,000-bed prison in the United States every year.


Fortunately in 1974, Bob Barker learned a thing or two about profiting off the misfortune of others, he owns the largest governmnent supplier of every thing from prison afro picks to jump suits. The Prison Industry has made your favorite day time host filthy rich while we watch our children get caught up in the money making scheme and yes while Bob smiles everyday hosting The Price is Right...I now truly know the math. He has been profiting off of people for over 35 years while hosting his hit daytime game show.

The Bob Barker Company

Some have singled out the nation's drug laws as the cause of the problem and lobby to lighten penalties, particularly mandatory sentencing for personal drug possession and use. However, the tougher drug and sentencing laws are to convict youth at early development-thus the more profit the system and Bob Barker stand make. Probation and Parole violations are the number one cause for previous inmates to be reincarcerated.

While drug offenders constitute the majority of inmates in federal prisons... they account for one-fifth of the much larger state inmate population. Further, recent statistics showed that violent offenders comprise the majority of inmate growth in the state prisons since 1990, a whooping 51 percent, campared to 20 percent for drug offenders.

The reality is that our prisons are bursting at the seams not so much because of new laws, but rather because they have become revolving-door facilities, with many of the same inmates, uncorrected and unrehabilitated, returning again and again.

Prison Population Predictions