by Jeremy Fontanez
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The United States incarcerates more of it’s citizens than any other nation. With only 5% of the world’s population, our country houses 25% of the world’s prison population. In 1992, our federal prisons housed less than 93,000 prisoners, but today there are more than 197,000 prisoners in the federal system. Nationwide, state and federal, our prisons hold more than 2.2 million people. With so much money being funneled into the prison system, it is no wonder why our schools in this country are grossly under funded, or even closing down. The budget for the Bureau of Prisons for fiscal year 2016 was a bloated $7.5 billion dollars.