Million Dollar Hood

The U.S. is the global leader in mass incarceration. Los Angeles operates the largest prison system in the world, with a yearly budget of almost a billion dollars. A site called milliondollarhoods.org maps how much Los Angeles spends on incarcerating people, broken down by the neighborhood they are from. For Boyle Heights alone, Los Angeles spent almost $15 million on incarceration between 2010 and 2015.