According to the Prison Policy Initiative’s 2018 report, the US criminal justice system holds nearly 2.3 million people (of the nation’s total 329 million total people) in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 1,852 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and eighty Indian Country jails along with military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the US territories. Indeed, it’s a widely known fact that the United States incarcerates a larger share of its population than any other country.