Why are there so many people in prison in America?
Why are there so many people in prison in America? Sun, May 7, 2017 - Daniel Von Fange It’s true that American has more total inmates than any nation on earth. Obviously for a fair comparison we’d also need to consider population size. Even by this metric, America is #2 in the world. First here is the Seychelles, off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. The Seychelles had a 4.5x increase in prison population in the last ten years. The Russia Federation used to have the world’s largest prison population rate in 2000, but has seen almost a 50% decrease since then. (I’d love to know ...
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