11 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.