> > Your government has 25% of the worlds prison population. > > Probably because our cops and prosecutors are better than yours. Separately,> we lock up far to many non violent drug offenders. Add that together and we> have too many prisoners. But 25% of the world's population has to be a wrong> number. China's prison population is probably larger than our entire> country. If not them, then China and India together are defiantly. It's not> that we have lost of criminals, because all countries have lots of 'em, it's> that ours are behind bars. >
http://www.uncjin.org/country/country.html at the bottom there is a link to a UK government report in PDF format, 8 million prisioners in the world, 1.7 million in the US. So i stand corrected, 21.25% of the worlds population is in US prisions by the UK governments study. Land of the ? Glenn _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
