Re: Land of let's only talk about whats wrong with the US

From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dsl.pipex.com)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 06:25:53 MDT

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    matus wrote:

    > I wasn't asking for the whole article to be reproduced violating
    > copyright, I would have liked to seen a link to the article to read more
    > about the study. I would genuinely be interested to know how they
    > determined the incarceration rate in other not so open societies, like
    > communist ones, or tyranical dictator ones, or oppresive theocracies.
    > E.g. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, etc.

    A quick Google finds,

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0818/p02s01-usju.html

    And here's the report with the 5.6 million figure,

    http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/piusp01pr.htm

    http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/piusp01.htm

    Oddly enough, while it has all the data from the body of the CSM article, it
    doesn't appear to have anything to say about US incarceration rates compared
    to the rest of the world.

    Google suggests that a common citation for statistics on world incarceration
    rates is the Home Office's World Prison Population List,

    http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r188.pdf

    In which the USA takes the top spot.

    BM

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