Number of state prisons per state
This map is from Wikipedia.
This map shows federal prison facilities in the United States. Not included (yet) are the roughly 400 other facilities used by ICE to house people in immigration-related cases.
The blue markers are federal facilities run by the Bureau of Prisons. The green markers are private prisons run by companies such as GEO Group. The red markers are non-federal facilities, such as state, county, city, etc.
This map does not show all the other facilities that are part of the prison industry. For example, the several hundred federal and state probation and pretrial offices.
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