Worried about numbers
11th April 2012 |
Why does cuba and other countries not have any prisoners in this data? |
Arkiasis
31st March 2012 |
USA has more prisoners than police state China, lol. |
entropy
22nd February 2012 |
@Mansion
In reality, over 150 BILLION dollars is spent on prisoners, prisons and policemen annually. This puts it up to you, the taxpayers to provide for their necessities and facilities. I think its complete bull to believe that death row is unconstitutional and support the death penalty. Just think about it and try to make good choices. |
PATMANDO
1st January 2012 |
Anyone know where I can find the stats on cons returning to prison for worse crime than what they were previously convicted for? |
Mansion
19th July 2011 |
@ Joe That cost includes guard salary, prison maintenance, etc. Don't think prisoners are at all living the high life, any big screen TVs you might see in common areas are actually paid for by the prisoners themselves, at least this was the case in a facility I visited. |
wha! so many!
12th July 2011 |
there are lots of prisoners |
qwerty
24th June 2011 |
Why Tajikistan has 0???? no info? |
Wamala Balunabba
18th June 2011 |
This is good research |
Hap
17th February 2011 |
USA! USA! USA! WE'RE NUMBER ONE !! |
Joseph Hart
11th February 2011 |
@ Joe Freedom
If you look at more of the stats available on this website you will see that only 0.5% of the US prison population are foreign. |
JDoob
12th June 2010 |
To ChrisL:
It's confusing, but you're looking at it the wrong way. Texas has a higher rate of imprisonment, not more individual prisoners than the rest of the US states combined. It just simply incarcerates people at a higher rate than the rest of the country whether combined or considered individually per state.
Plus it's not 704 out of 100,000, it is 1 out of 704, which is a higher rate than 1 in 726. So it all means, in Texas you are approximately 6% more likely to be arrested than anywhere else in the US. |
Joe
8th June 2010 |
"The average cost for one year of imprisonment for one person is US$22,000..."
Are you f'in kidding me, I live in a rented apt. and pay for everything I need myself, and live on about 13-16k a year, prisoners must be getting quite a bit... |
Chris L
7th May 2010 |
I'm confused about some of the stats form Ian. If in the US, 1in 726 per 100,000 are imprisoned, how can Texas be at the top with 704 per 100,000? Either one of those numbers is wrong, or Texas has more than 103% of all the prisoners in the US.... |
Brian
27th April 2010 |
Well Kathy where you go wrong is honestly about everything in your statement except for the statistics. I would have to agree with you that men or more likely to be in jail for more violent offenses, but also lets go into situations like you did. How many of these offenses of men do you believe happened due to the fact of protecting women? Coming up with ways to keep his wife and kids from starving and such. If women were superior to male like you say then why aren't they the ones putting themselves and their reputations at risk for there family and there loved ones. I am not against women at all, I love them and they're the s but i strongly disagree with your statement Kathy and its c that you would even come up with that generalization. |
StatGirl
19th April 2010 |
Kathy, I can see how you could deduce that men are the agressor and that the numbers seem to support your theory, but in reality the prison systems give women lighter sentences or none at all because we are the "weaker sex" there are a multitude of examples of women receiving probation for cold blooded murder, because it was a women she got a "second chance". There is such gender inequality in the world but in this case it works out in the positive (if you want to look at it that way) for women. |
Kathy
15th April 2010 |
If one looks at the female prisoner stats listed here, we would see that the highest percentage of women in prison is only 20.3%, it shows that crime is almost always a MALE activity. I do wonder how many of the women in prison are there because they were protecting themselves from male aggression. If this numbers were separated and we could see the number of women in prison for violent crimes, I am sure it would be almost ALL male. It is hard to imagine why most everyone cannot see that women are morally superior to males and in reality, when we look at the overall picture with health, education and other things, that women are by far superior to males in almost every area! |
Joe Freedom
23rd February 2010 |
Contrary to the bigoted assertion of Jim50, most people in US jails are Americans. Not a very free country is it, with by far the largest number of it's citizens in jail!!
Land of the free? No its the land of the police state. |
Jim50
7th May 2009 |
I wonder how many prisoners would be in the US system if we kicked out all the illegals. |
shawn (US)
26th March 2009 |
The problem with the U.S. is that, there's to many police officers and prisons, and Americans are taxed for the prisons, police officers, police cars, etc., where a lot of the other countries spend their tax dollars on other things besides prisons and police officers. There's very little "independence" in the U.S., less tax dollars should be spent on prisons and police officers in the U.S. and allocate more of that money to education, health care, and infrastructure, things that will help reduce crime, rather than create crime. When we pay our taxes here in the U.S. we would like to have less crime rather than more crime, police officers and prisons aren't the way to solve the problem. |
Jan (Long Beach)
4th March 2009 |
Greg for your information: of all countries in the world, the US is No.4 in
executing people. True, China executes roughly sixty times as many but
the club of the murderous five includes the US, e.g., in 2006 91 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan and the USA according to amnesty international.
In 2004, I have the numbers:
1 China 3,400*
2 Iran 159*
3 Vietnam 64*
4 United States 59*
5 Saudi Arabia 33*
6 Pakistan 15*
7 Kuwait 9*
A what a list. All of these can be so proud, they are so alike! |
BS
3rd January 2009 |
Greg your comment about China executing all its prisoners is ridiculous. This is why: China has 1.3 billion people so the absolute number of executions is meaningless. The per capital number is nowhere near the top of the table. In fact per capital in some years it is apparently less than Texas. So if China were divided into a bunch of smaller countries no one would remark on it's execution rates.
Secondly even if America were to execute the same number of prisoners as China (470 in 1997) but some estimate as many as 10,000 in some years this decade, it would have basically no noticeable impact on the US prison population.
From the statistics alone we could deduce that Chinese people are basically more law abiding.
I have a personal opinion since I have lived in China for 3 years. I see no evidence that Chinese people have deep respect for the police and certainly no apparent fear of them as you often see people blatantly ignoring police or arguing with them in the street.
There is some petty crime like pick pocketing but it is seems rarer than in Europe, occasionally something more serious occurs such as a child being kidnapped and sold. Once in a while a story of a sex attacker might hit the news but the more serious crimes seem to be very low frequency.
As for the death penalty itself, it seems be accepted by most people I've talked to as just the appropriate response to a terrible crime. People work hard and have little sympathy for criminals here. I do not agree with the DP myself but it is not my country so I don't have a right to comment. |
Vet223 (Tallahassee)
13th November 2008 |
"It's called the War On Drugs (People)! Most of our "crime" is from the Government making money off of Prohibition again, it lines their pockets one way or the other."
It's funny you say that, especially under a description of how many people we have behind bars. There's plenty of people (even criminology professors) that will tell you most people in our prisons are there for drug offenses, but it's simply not true. That is true only for federal pens, which is about 80,000 out of that 2.1 million figure. Add all people behind bars in this country together, and you'll find that drug offenses, along with property offenses, share a little less than a quarter of the prison populations. And as most people would say it should be, the lion's share of about 49%, are there for violent crime. |
JPL (Va.)
13th July 2008 |
need some help. Looking for a statistic: of the prisoners in US prisons, what crime did they commit for which they are incarcerated. |
JT (US)
28th April 2008 |
It's called the War On Drugs (People)! Most of our "crime" is from the Government making money off of Prohibition again, it lines their pockets one way or the other. |
amir golestani
8th April 2006 |
this is a very good site and full of information for everyone.thanks |
Ed
11th July 2005 |
Why does the Czech Republic have more jails than prisoners |
Greg
27th June 2005 |
It has always seemed to me that if the US would only issue identity cards that could be checked by authorities for any or no reason we could drop our crime rate significantly. One of the ;problems with being the fresh society on earth is that you have a high crime rate (people seem to commit crimes if you let them) however if you look at some of the other stats around the world like execicutions per capita you will find that the US isn't such a bad place at all. We could drop our prison populations significantly if, like China, we simply killed them all. |
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