11 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Incarcerated



 

25 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Incarcerated

The US carceral state, responsible for housing one fifth of the global prison population despite Americans making up less than 5% of the world population, has ballooned enormously since the beginning of the war on drugs in the early 1970s. With nearly 75% of US states containing more prisons than colleges or universities, mass incarceration in the United States has even managed to circumvent the power and status of celebrity.