American Incarceration Rates

This activity is based on data from the following articles: https://criticalmath.ca/2017/04/11/the-rise-of-the-us-prison-population-wb-matthewoldridge-mtbos-onted/ http://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Trends-in-US-Corrections.pdf The purpose of the activity is to start a classroom discussion, using mathematics, about things going on in the world today.

By Rachel Fruin