Yahoo! News - Report: 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in Prison
Yahoo! News - Report: 1 of Every 75 U.S. Men in Prison Are we jailing to many people? Or are there that many bad guys?
There were 715 inmates for every 100,000 U.S. residents at midyear in 2003, up from 703 a year earlier, the report found.
The nation's incarceration rate tops the world, according to The Sentencing Project, another group that promotes alternatives to prison. That compares with a rate of 169 per 100,000 residents in Mexico, 116 in Canada and 143 for England and Wales.
Russia's prison population, which once rivaled the United States', has dropped to 584 per 100,000 because of prisoner amnesties in recent years, the group said.
What bothers me most is that money and good lawyers will keep most crimminals out of jail while the poor don't stand a chance with our system of public defenders.
posted by Liberty @ 8:00 PM
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