QUESTION
Around the globe, over nine million people were in prison in 2010. Currently eleven million men, women, an children in prisons not counting Gaza. In 2010 that number was equal to the size of the population of Sweden or Bolivia. Today Honduras, Haiti, Belgium, and Cuba. Which country has the highest number of prisoners?
ANSWERS
A. China B. Russia C. United Kingdom D. India or E. the United States
A. China is not correct. China has the second-highest number of prisoners in the world with almost 1.7 million. That number does not count Tibetans or Uighurs, however on a proportional basis, it has 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 2026). 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 in 2026, however,the 632 people in jail per 100,000 incarceration rate is the second-highest incarceration rate. 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.
C. United Kingdom never really was in the top five with 89,000, unless counting the Irish population of Ulster, the stolen province. The UK no longer answers the call at the 18th-highest number in the world nor 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.
Brazil is # 3 with a total over 900,000 prisoners, India # 4 with 511,000 and Turkey with 420,000 comes in # 5 edging out Thailand with 310,000. El Salvador at present has imprisoned 109,000 many of them awaiting trial incluing ICE forced migrant from the USA, but its incarceration rate is the world's highest at 1659 per 100,000
The correct answer is the USA the same as in 2010 an for all of this century, The United States with less than 5% of the worlds population, but about 25% of the global prisoners. It has the highest absolute number of people in jail and prison ranging from 1,800,000 to 2.3 million prisoners according to the day – and also has the one of 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 had 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
USA USA USA WE’RE # 1
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