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This is an overview of the American Criminal Justice System. When this presentation was made, there were more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,259 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails, as well as military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories. http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2015.html