Claim: "We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."
Fact-check: Was a prison built every 10 days to house a fast-growing population of nonviolent inmates?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Keely Herring
Date published: 2015-07-31T00:00:00