In almost every nation in the world, governments rule the land with some form of prison or punishment. But in the United States, prisons are a particularly massive institution. More than 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., according to numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), and that includes about 1 percent of the entire country's adult males. In fact, the U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world \u2013 an estimated 450 people are in prison per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n
But what crimes are these individuals committing \u2013 and what states sentence the most offenders? We evaluated data from the United States Sentencing Commission's 2017 Federal Sentencing Statistics to find the most common federal crime in each state, the typical legal repercussions, and what this could mean for potential residents who are trying to lead safe lives. Read on to find out what's going on in your area and, more importantly, what the courts are doing about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21304,"template":"views\/lp\/lp-2021.blade.php","class_list":["post-10012","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n