From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 03:39:22 MDT
Damien Broderick:
>Uh-oh.
>US Has World's Highest Incarceration Rate
>By GAIL RUSSELL CHADDOCK
>Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
>More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there,
>according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's
>1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration
>level in the world.
I guess this is a summertime news item? New stats for the
U.S. prison population get published.
I mentions this because it was a large news item almost exactly one
year ago. I read all of those articles from last year.
(Politics _do_ make a difference for where I want to live )
The Economist published an article about the U.S. prison stats
in the August 8, 2002 edition.
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Justice in America
Too many convicts
Aug 8th 2002
From The Economist print edition
TODAY is a special day for 1,600 American men and women: they are
being released from a state or federal prison. Tomorrow will be a
special day for another 1,600 people. As will be the day after that.
Some 600,000 inmates will leave prison this year-more than the
population of Washington, DC. After quadrupling its imprisonment
rate in just 30 years-America now has 700 people in every 100,000
under lock and key, five times the proportion in Britain, the
toughest sentencer in Western Europe-the world's most aggressive
jailer must now confront the iron law of imprisonment: that those
who go in almost always come out.
The result is a society that, statistically at least, is beginning
to look a little like early Australia. Nearly one in eight American
men has been convicted of a felony-and thus, in many states, has
been automatically deprived of numerous rights, including the right
to vote. One in 20 men has been to jail. [...]
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See The Economist article for more.
There was news at this link too:
August 25, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/25/jail.stats/
"U.S. correctional population at record high" ...
At the time, one yr ago,I gathered some information on this topic
on the Web and found some sources that said that U.S. has more
people in prison (per capita) than Russia, Belarus, South Africa,
Thailand, England, China, France, Italy, Japan and more.
I was really bothered at the time, but I cannot confirm the above.
Unfortunately I'm in a time crunch for other things, I don't have
time now to retrace my steps.
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