What does area mean in math and what is length times wighth? well, area means the inside e of something exterior of any figure and length times with is the area of an rectangle. Edit
Over 60% of people in American prisons may have been convicted of non-violent crime s, but 46% of Americans say that they think the main purpose of prison is to take violent criminals off the streets.0% of the country says that too many people who have committed crimes are imprisoned in the US, while 13% says that the incarceration rate is about right. 26% think that too few people are imprisoned.
According to a US Department of Justice report published in 2006, over 7.2 million people were at that time in prison, on probation, or on parole (released from prison with restrictions). That means roughly 1 in every 32 Americans are held by the justice system.f all prisoners are counted (including juvenile, territorial, ICE, Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the USA had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world, at 754 per 100,000 (as of 2009).