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United States incarceration rate
The United States of America has an incarceration rate of 743 per 100,000 of national population (as of 2009), the highest in the world.
[2] In comparison, Russia has the second highest 577 per 100,000, Canada is 123rd in the world with 117 per 100,000, and China has 120 per 100,000.[2] While Americans only represent about 5 percent of the world's population, one-quarter of the entire world's inmates are incarcerated in the United States.[3]
See also: List of U.S. states by incarceration rate
According to a US Department of Justice report published in 2006, over 7.2 million people were at that time in prison, on probation, or on parole. That means roughly 1 in every 32 Americans are held by the justice system.[4][5] According to the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College London, of that 7.2 million, 2.3 million are in prison. The People's Republic of China comes in second place with 1.6 million, despite its population being over four times that of the United States.[6]
In 2004, a majority of state inmates (53 percent) and almost half of federal inmates (45 percent) had used drugs in the year before their admission to prison.[7] Among the prisoners, drug offenders made up the same percentage of State prisoners in both 1997 and 2004 (21%). The percentage of Federal prisoners serving time for drug offenses declined from 63% in 1997 to 55% in 2004.[8] In the twenty-five years since the passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, the United States penal population rose from around 300,000 to more than two million.[9]
Between 1986 and 1991, African-American's women's incarceration in state prisons for drug offenses increased by 828 percent.[10]
The United States imprisons more of its racial minorities than any other country in the world. In Washington D.C., three out of every four young black men are expected to serve some time in prison. In major cities across the country, 80% of young African Americans now have criminal records.[14]
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Issue of the Day: Rate of Imprisonment
Published Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by Lacey Loftin
At the end of 2007 approximately 7.3 million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation’s prisons, jails, on probation or parole.
The report published this month by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics stated that 1 in 31 adults was incarcerated or under supervision at the end of 2007. This rate of 506 per 100,000 residents has remained steady since 1999. The rate figure, when compared to Great Britain who incarcerates only 153 people per 100,000 residents, Canada 108 and Italy 83, has prompted Human Rights Watch to criticize the United States as the world’s leading jailer.
The report also showed large racial disparities, with black males incarcerated at a rate more than 6.5 times that of white males and 2.5 that of Hispanic males. At the end of 2007 there were 3,138 Black male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Black males in the United States; this is down for the sixth year in a row.
The second highest is the rate of 1,259 Hispanic male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males, compared with 481 White male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 White males. Amongst females the same disproportion applies to the rates in that 150 Black, 79 Hispanic and 50 White females per 100,000 of each group were imprisoned.
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But mek di frog dem gwaan bwile an di ostrich dem suffocate
United States incarceration rate
The United States of America has an incarceration rate of 743 per 100,000 of national population (as of 2009), the highest in the world.
[2] In comparison, Russia has the second highest 577 per 100,000, Canada is 123rd in the world with 117 per 100,000, and China has 120 per 100,000.[2] While Americans only represent about 5 percent of the world's population, one-quarter of the entire world's inmates are incarcerated in the United States.[3]
See also: List of U.S. states by incarceration rate
According to a US Department of Justice report published in 2006, over 7.2 million people were at that time in prison, on probation, or on parole. That means roughly 1 in every 32 Americans are held by the justice system.[4][5] According to the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King's College London, of that 7.2 million, 2.3 million are in prison. The People's Republic of China comes in second place with 1.6 million, despite its population being over four times that of the United States.[6]
In 2004, a majority of state inmates (53 percent) and almost half of federal inmates (45 percent) had used drugs in the year before their admission to prison.[7] Among the prisoners, drug offenders made up the same percentage of State prisoners in both 1997 and 2004 (21%). The percentage of Federal prisoners serving time for drug offenses declined from 63% in 1997 to 55% in 2004.[8] In the twenty-five years since the passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, the United States penal population rose from around 300,000 to more than two million.[9]
Between 1986 and 1991, African-American's women's incarceration in state prisons for drug offenses increased by 828 percent.[10]
The United States imprisons more of its racial minorities than any other country in the world. In Washington D.C., three out of every four young black men are expected to serve some time in prison. In major cities across the country, 80% of young African Americans now have criminal records.[14]
[edit]Causes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...rceration_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rceration_rate
Issue of the Day: Rate of Imprisonment
Published Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by Lacey Loftin
At the end of 2007 approximately 7.3 million men and women were under correctional supervision in the nation’s prisons, jails, on probation or parole.
The report published this month by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics stated that 1 in 31 adults was incarcerated or under supervision at the end of 2007. This rate of 506 per 100,000 residents has remained steady since 1999. The rate figure, when compared to Great Britain who incarcerates only 153 people per 100,000 residents, Canada 108 and Italy 83, has prompted Human Rights Watch to criticize the United States as the world’s leading jailer.
The report also showed large racial disparities, with black males incarcerated at a rate more than 6.5 times that of white males and 2.5 that of Hispanic males. At the end of 2007 there were 3,138 Black male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Black males in the United States; this is down for the sixth year in a row.
The second highest is the rate of 1,259 Hispanic male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males, compared with 481 White male sentenced prisoners per 100,000 White males. Amongst females the same disproportion applies to the rates in that 150 Black, 79 Hispanic and 50 White females per 100,000 of each group were imprisoned.
http://www.project.org/info.php?recordID=174
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