your depressing nugget for the day
The United States, home to five percent of the worlds’ population, now houses
twenty-five percent of the world’s prison inmates. Our incarceration rate - at
714 per 100,000 residents and rising - is almost forty percent greater than our
nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is
6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan.
twenty-five percent of the world’s prison inmates. Our incarceration rate - at
714 per 100,000 residents and rising - is almost forty percent greater than our
nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is
6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan.