If California was a nation, the state would rank sixth in total prisoners,
174,000, around the world. The nations with higher prisoner populations than
California’s (with vastly larger non-prison populaces) are: Brazil, 361,402;
China, 1,548,498; India, 332,112; Mexico, 214,450; and Russia, 869,814.
Seth
Source:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/downloads/world-prison-pop-seventh.pdf
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:36:25 -0800
From: Jim Devine <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] worse or better than 1982?
To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]>
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Eugene Coyle wrote:
> In the various adjustments to the unemployment rate, is the
> BLS or Leonhardt or anyone else adding the couple of
> million in jail and prison to the presently unemployed? The > number
> incarcerated has soared since 1982.
no they aren't. Good point. If I remember correctly, Katz and Krueger (1999)
argue that rising incarceration has lowered the amount of structural
unemployment. (The High-Pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s. Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity. 1: 1-65.)
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and
let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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