The Globalist Prison Quiz

QUESTION

Around the globe, over 9 million people are currently in prisons. That is equal to the size of the population of Sweden or Bolivia. We wonder: Which country has the highest number of prisoners?

ANSWERS

A. China

B. Russia

C. United Kingdom

D. United States

A.

China is not correct.

China has the second-highest number of prisoners in the world, with 1.6 million. However, on a proportional basis, it has only the 113th-highest incarceration rate, with 119 people out of every 100,000 in jail (according to the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College London). This number, though, excludes the hundreds of thousands of people in administrative detention facilities. The four BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – all rank in the top five in terms of prison population totals.

B.

Russia is not correct.

Russia has a total of 890,000 prisoners, ranking third worldwide. However, at 632 people in jail per 100,000, it has the second-highest incarceration rate in the world. Of all prisoners in Russia, 7.4 percent are female, compared with 4.9 percent in China and 9.1 percent in the United States. The global average is about 5 percent.

United Kingdom is not correct.

The United Kingdom has 82,000 prisoners, the 18th-highest number in the world – but not the highest in the European Union. Poland has the most prisoners in the EU, ranking 16th with 88,000. The United Kingdom has a relatively low incarceration rate of 152 prisoners per 100,000 people – the 86th-highest rate in the world.

D.

United States is correct.

The United States has less than 5 percent of the worlds population, but about 25 percent of its prisoners. It has the highest absolute number of people in jail, with 2.3 million prisoners – and also has the highest incarceration rate, with 751 people in jail for every 100,000 people. After incarceration rates remained stable at 110 prisoners per 100,000 people from 1925 to 1975, they experienced a spike in large part due to an increase in efforts to combat illegal drugs. Lengthy U.S. prison stays are not the only way in which U.S. incarceration legislation is more strict. Some states in the United States take the right to vote away from citizens who have completed their sentences.

The above comes from the Globalist, an online news service.

See www.theglobalist.com

PS the US prison population has plateaued as states realize that their budgets can not support further expansion of the penal colonies. Convicted felons are stripped of their electoral rights, however if given them back the prison population would have a greater political impact than the following states and territories;

New Mexico - 2,009,671
Nebraska - 1,796,619
New Hampshire - 1,324,575
Maine - 1,318,301
Hawaii - 641,694
Rhode Island - 974,989
Montana - 974,989
Delaware - 885,122
South Dakota - 812,383
Alaska - 698,473
North Dakota - 646,844
Vermont - 621,760
District of Columbia - 599,657
Wyoming - 544,270
Guam - 178,430
U.S. Virgin Islands- 109,825
Northern Mariana Is. - 88,662
American Samoa - 65,628

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