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US Tops Globe For Putting Citizens Behind BarsTOUGH sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the US having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts. A recent report by the US Justice Department showed that a record 7 million people — or one in every 32 American adults — were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. Of the total, 2.2 million were in prison. According to the International Centre for Prison Studies at Kings College in London, more people are behind bars in the US than in any other country. China ranks second with 1.5 million prisoners, followed by Russia with 870,000. The US incarceration rate of 737 per 100,000 people is the highest, followed by 611 in Russia and 547 for St Kitts and Nevis. In contrast, the incarceration rates in many Western nations range about 100 per 100,000 people. Groups advocating reform of US sentencing laws seized on the latest prison population figures showing admissions of inmates have been rising faster than the numbers of prisoners who have been released. "The United States has 5 per cent of the worlds population and 25 per cent of the worlds incarcerated population. We rank first in the world in locking up our fellow citizens," said Ethan Nadelmann, of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports alternatives in the war on drugs. But Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in California, said that locking up more criminals had contributed to lower crime rates. REUTERS Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationBush Visits Colombia Amid Security and Protests...Islamic Opposition Group Pulls Out of Elections in Jordan... Guatemala Bus Plunge Kills 45... Conviction in Poisoning of Indonesian Rights Activist... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - US Tops Globe For Putting Citizens Behind Bars |
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