Confronting Confinement

June 2006 Confronting ConfinementThe daily count of prisoners in the United States has surpassed 2.2 million. Over the course of a year, 13.5 million people spend time in jail or prison, and 95% of them eventually return to our communities. Approximately 750,000 men and women work in U.S. correctional facilities as line officers or other staff. The United States spends more than $60 billion dollars annually on corrections. Many of those who are incarcerated come from and return to poor African-American and Latino neighborhoods, and the stability of those communities has an effect on the . . .