Prison System Statistics

I. There are 2,000,000 inmates in the United States.

• 308,687 inmates incarcerated in State and Federal Prisons.
• 58,984 total New York inmates.
• 277,680 inmates on parole.
• 11,576 Female inmates in our State Prisons.

II. There are 850 prisons and according to the Americans Corrections Association there are approximately 6,000 Correctional Facilities of all types.

• Jails and Prisons since 1979

III. It Cost $80,0000 to build a cell and it cost tax payers $20,000 a year to house an inmate. There is only 500 fulltime chaplains

Please pray for more chaplains for the system.

Rev. Herman Cruz,

Community Chaplain