Nation o' prisons

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice in 1980 there were 315,974 prisoners serving sentences of a year or more that were incarcerated in federal in state prisons. That is a ratio of 139 per 100,000 of the resident population. In 2002 there 1,380,370 prisoners serveing sentences of a year or more that were incarcerated in federal and state prisons. That is a ratio of 476 per 100,000 of the resident population. These numbers have risen every year since 1980. You better watch your step and do what your supposed to do, mister.