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To: publiusF27
Here is what appears to be a newer list. You have to click on the "World Prison Brief" link and then click "Highest to Lowest Rates." Then you can choose to look at prison populations by country or have it listed by incarceration rates per country. The list appears to have the latest available data. According to this list, one of the countries I listed as being in the top ten with respect to incarceration rates, Kazakhstan, has now dropped to number 24. The others I mentioned are still in the top ten and we are still number one by a good margin. Note that the "Prison Population Totals" list shows China as having the second highest total number of people incarcerated at 1,548,498, compared to well over 2 million incarcerated in the U.S. China has over a billion people, we have something like 280 million. No other countries have a million or more people incarcerated. Russia has a little over 800,000 incarcerated, Brazil a little over 330,000, India a little over 322,000, Mexico slightly over 201,000 and the rest of the countries in the world listed have under 200,000 incarcerated. From what I have read about 25% of the people incarcerated in the world are incarcerated right here in the land of the free where less than 5% of the world's population lives.

http://www.prisonstudies.org/
55 posted on 12/16/2005 8:13:36 AM PST by TKDietz
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To: TKDietz

Thanks! I was finding some material, but it seemed a great deal of it was dated, and I had to wade through lots of lefty garbage to get to some of it.


56 posted on 12/16/2005 3:25:34 PM PST by publiusF27
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