It has been said by Dostoyevsky that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” This quote determines that prisons play a major role in explaining the level of civilization in a country. This is because studying the crime rate in a country enables us to know about the literacy rate as well as the civilization. People tend to commit crimes when they are illiterate of when they are unemployed. The population in the US is 313,847,465 which is why it is known as the third most populated country in the world. ...