US Imprisons More Citizens Than Any Other Nation
by Anthony Sibley (AJ) on Jul 14, 2013 | Views: 560 | Score: 11
| Number of Prisoners per 100,000 Citizens | |
|---|---|
| Japan | 63 |
| Germany | 90 |
| Germany | 96 |
| South Korea | 97 |
| Canada | 117 |
| Britain | 153 |
| China | 186 |
| Mexico | 208 |
| Brazil | 242 |
| Russia | 577 |
| US | 760 |
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 24% of the world's prisoner population, while only constituting 5% of the global human population. Roughly 1-in-every-32 Americans were held by the justice system in some form. The US spends $74 billion on corrections, an amount that has persistently risen even as crime rates have declined.