60% of individuals release from prison in a given year will have committed another crime within 6 months.
75% of individuals released from prison in a given year will have returned to crime within a four year period.
The longer an individual is incarcerated (especially more than 5 years) the harder it is for this individual to become a whole person when released.
The majority of ex-offenders have lost the capacity to trust others which will greatly impede their ability to form healthy relationships.
Due to the predatory environment of prison many ex-offenders have been desensitized to pain having been over exposed to extreme violence.
Half of all the inmate marriages will end up in divorce in the first year; overall the number of divorces is higher than 80% for ex-offenders.
From 1991 through 1998 state and federal prison inmate population increase from 789,610 to 1,252,830 a unprecedented percentage increase of 59%.
Texas led the nation with a staggering 144% increase in use of incarceration from 1991 to 1998.
The scale of incarceration in the US has expanded from about 330,000 Americans in prison and jail in 1972 to nearly two million today.
From 1990 to 1998 the number of ex-paroled convicts returned to prison rose 54% from 13,870 to 206,751.
of the parole violators returned to prison in 1997, 60% committed a new crime and 40% committed a technical violation such as failing a drug test or failure to report to their parole officer.
The cost of prison construction and housing now totals nearly 40 billion dollars annually.