@hawkeye10,
What I love is that the US lead the world in the total percents of it population in prison and lovely people like Firefly does not think that is enough and wish us to had more and more of our people place in prisons for longer and longer time periods.
We had roughly ten times the percents of our total population in prison then the UK for example.
Firefly may not had normal orgasms but she seems to have them over the idea of placing more and more men in prison for decades.
http://www.apcca.org/stats/5th%20Edition%20(2004).pdf
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Key points
l Over 9 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, mostly as pre - t r i a l
detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted and sentenced. About half of these are
in the United States (2.03m), Russia (0.86m) or China (1.51m plus pre-trial detainees and
prisoners in ‘administrative detention’).
l The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, some 701 per 100,000
of the national population, followed by Russia (606), Belarus (554), Kazakhstan and the U.S.
Vi rgin Islands (both 522), the Cayman Islands (501), Turkmenistan (489), Belize (459),
B e rmuda (447), Suriname (437), Dominica (420) and Ukraine (415).
l H o w e v e r, more than three fifths of countries (60.5%) have rates below 150 per 100,000. (The
United Kingdom’s rate of 141 per 100,000 of the national population places it above the midpoint
in the World List; it is the highest among countries of the European Union.)
l Prison population rates vary considerably between diff e rent regions of the world, and between
d i ff e rent parts of the same continent. For example:
o in Africa the median rate for western and central African countries is 48 whereas for
s o u t h e rn African countries it is 327;
o in the Americas the median rate for south American countries is 126 whereas for
Caribbean countries it is 297;
o in Asia the median rate for south central Asian countries (mainly the Indian sub-continent)
is 59 whereas for (ex-Soviet) central Asian countries it is 390;
o in Europe the median rate for southern European countries is 76.5 whereas for central and
e a s t e rn European countries it is 200;
o in Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand) the median rate is 111.5.
l Prison populations are growing in many parts of the world. Updated information on countries
included in previous editions of the World Prison Population List shows that prison populations
have risen in 71% of these countries (in 61% of countries in Africa, 71% in the Americas, 90%
in Asia, 66% in Europe and 69% in Oceania).
This fifth edition of the World Prison Population
List has been compiled, like previous editions,
f rom a variety of sources. In almost all cases the
original source is the national prison
administration of the country concerned, or else
the Ministry responsible for the prison
administration. Most figures relate to dates
between late 1999 and November 2003. Since
prison population rates (per 100,000 of the
national population) are based on estimates of the
national population they should not be re g a rd e d
as precise. In order to compare prison population
rates in diff e rent regions of the world, and to
estimate the number of persons held in prison in
the countries for which information is not
available, median rates have been used because
they minimise the effect of countries with rates that
a re untypically high or low.
