United States Tops The World In The Number Of Its Citizens In Jail
In a recent report the United States topped all countries for the highest incarceration rate in the world. At the end of 2007, a record 7.2 million Americans were either in prison, on probation or on parole. Of that total 2.3 million Americans were in jail. At the start of 2008 more than 1 of every 100 Americans was behind bars. (read more)
According to the International News the US incarcerates people at a rate more than 15 times that of Japan, and its prison population is more than eight times that of Italy, France, the UK, Spain and Australia combined. The US, today, has a higher percentage of its citizenry in prison than any other country in history, and accounts for an astonishing 25 per cent of the world’s prison population.
The news is no better when it comes to criminal cases and imprisonment in the state of Florida. The rise in the number of Floridians convicted of crimes and sent to jail is a factor in the rise in the US prison population according to Allen Beck, the chief prison demographer for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical arm of the US Justice Department.
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