Over Population of the Prison System and Economic Costs

Do you know just how many people are sitting on Death Row today? Okay, do you know how much money is spent on building, maintaining, and staffing federal and local prisons? Do you support the Death Penalty? It is a know fact that many people are oblivious to how much money is spent yearly on keeping criminals off the streets and punishing them for their crimes. I support the Death Penalty fully due to the over population of the prison system and due to how much it is costing the tax payers to keep these criminals imprisoned.
Since 1990 there has been a record increase in the population of prisons; 1,000,000 inmates have been added nation wide to create a 70 % increase. This addition has forced prisons to take on 475,00 more inmates than designed to hold. In 2002, there was a record high population of 1.86 million inmates sitting in prison cells. In the past decade alone, the federal and state prisons have doubled to 925,000 while local jails have tripled to 450,000 inmate...