This new special project from Mother Jones magazine examines the "real price of prisons" as the American inmate population continues to balloon, currently topping two million persons. The site contains a number of brief essays (including two written by New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and the Rev. Jesse Jackson), discussion boards, and a well-organized directory of resources. The heart of the site is an incarceration atlas, an interactive guide to the growth of the prison population, spending on prisons and higher education, what proportion of prisoners are drug offenders, and the racial disparity between general and prison populations in each state.