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More than 2 million people are in jail or prison - here's 4 charts that break that down

Veronika BondarenkoMar 15, 2017, 22:01 IST

An inmate splashes water on the window of his single-cell room in acute area of the mental heath unit at the Harris County Jail, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, in Houston.AP Photo/Eric Gay

More than two million people in the US are currently serving time in one of the country's correctional facilities, according to a report released by the Prison Policy Initiative on Tuesday.

The report found that the US currently holds 2.3 million people in more than 1719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 901 juvenile correctional facilities, and 3163 local jails, among other detention centers.

With the adult population of the US at more than 249 million in 2015, 1 in roughly every 100 people over 18 is currently tied up in the country's correctional system.

PPI created a number of charts to further explain mass incarceration in America: