Daniël Hoenderdos
18th March 2013 |
Also the 3 strikes and your out rule makes for a lot of prisoners who stay for a long time. |
skylar lopez
26th February 2013 |
I CANT BELIBER PEOPLE DO THIS :( |
AmericanDissenter
13th January 2013 |
Our government loves to prosecute people....the entire modern economy in USA is based on exploitation and subjecting it's population to harsh imposed prison terms or face poverty so that the political aristocracy doesn't loose it's power. Oh crime is up...that's good throw more money at the problem, don't solve it we all get rich, they're just poor people....prison is doing them a favor. This is seriously what's going on..... |
cheyanne
24th October 2012 |
i thought the united states was the land of the free. i was wrong; so wrong |
Crash
6th September 2012 |
Go find statistics about the people in prison in the united states. Our numbers would be low if trash from other countries didn't come here! |
K
22nd August 2012 |
Where is the Cayman Islands?
We have a population of about 55,000 and have about 315 prisoners. That is like 620 prisoners per 100,000 |
mary zeman
22nd July 2012 |
No prisoners in Cuba? Did they send ALL of them to Miami? |
Simon
16th July 2012 |
@Donderman: I guess that 0 means that there is no reliable information to use... Not that they do not have prisoners. |
tiktak
14th July 2012 |
Really no prisoners in the 11 countries? How come? |
Joe in Toronto, Canada
27th June 2012 |
Hoe can you put your people in penitentiaries because of drug possession, while you can't afford to keep them there?
Canada is too lax and the USA is too tough, there must be something in the middle. |
anatoliy
22nd June 2012 |
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/04/22/us/20080423_PRISON_GRAPHIC.html
it has all numbers for all countries :) |
nuynyx
6th June 2012 |
@AR15
We have been doing all we can lately to catch up... |
Paul
27th March 2012 |
Surprised UK not listing... last I knew it had just topped 80 000 people out of 62 262 000: makes 128 per 100 000. Between Cameroon and Bulgaria. |
MBF
19th January 2012 |
I wasn't surprised to see the USA on the top of the list, although there is a country who has only one person in prison, and i didn't see that. |
Laszlo
17th January 2012 |
United States of Prisoners
I have had nightmares about being forced to go to USA - as a tourist!!
If Willard gets into power then the Taliban (Christian) win.(yes I know he's rebranded as Christiane Lite) |
shuku
29th October 2011 |
crime rates are directly proportional to the gap between rich and poor in a country. Usa has the highest gap. So no wonder why they are on top... |
AR-15
24th September 2011 |
I am wondering why there is so big difference between USA and Canada.
What is the main cause of this difference?
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Hoo Pflung Poo
6th September 2011 |
Countries with a high concentration of blacks who are (relatively speaking) well off compared to their brethren tend to have high per capita prisoners. Its as simple as that. |
Gary
7th August 2011 |
In reference to Dan's comment at top; I'm not sure "colliding cultures" is a scapegoat we can use. Unless it's blacks colliding with whites; and if you call blacks "immigrants", then we whites are as well. I have no answer to this, nor can I waste time arguing about symptoms of pathology that runs very deep in society and in humanity, of all cultures. But the American culture does seem obsessed with violence, and with the police & justice systems. All ages, all forms of media. And who can be blamed or fingered in this incestuous cycle? Consciousness & knowledge is the only answer to unconsciousness & ignorance, and it must begin on an individual level before it can influence societies or nations. |
Dondeman
25th June 2011 |
I checked just two: No prisoners in Cuba? or in the UAR? Where are you getting your statistics? |
Dan
30th May 2011 |
@Ron - I don't think Americans are "running around" to make their numbers "look better." It's a plain fact that Americans incarcerate more people per capita than any other country. The USA has far more immigrants (legal and undocumented) of any developed country. If you suggest that when different cultures collide there isn't a lot of crime, well, I suggest you extricate your head from where the sun doesn't shine and take a cold hard look at developments in Europe. Some states in the US allow only so many serious criminal transgressions before repeat offenders are permanently removed - at tremendous expense, I might add. In fact, on average, US prisoners cost $46,000US per annum to maintain. In case you don't know, that means that our rejects receive more funds than most working stiffs in other countries. Sad, but true. If you are thinking that it would be better to close our borders, well, that's a subject of political debate in the US - but I think not. America remains a country of immigrants. |
Ron
21st May 2011 |
It's funny how Americans are running around looking for excuses to make their numbers look better.
http://buterflystorms.blog.ca |
yoosuf
19th February 2011 |
the usa-land of freedom?stats are worse than non democratic counties. |
clam
19th February 2011 |
I think some of the countries with low numbers have many more that ought to be in prison but have bribed their way out of it, or the authorities are just too lax to jail them. |
sheldon waxman
19th February 2011 |
These stats don't even include those on parole or probation. |
Babak
18th February 2011 |
Sometime, it means that they don't arrest criminals or they can simply pay and get their freedom! or simply there is no data! look where Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan, and Turkmenistan are... |
Mick
17th February 2011 |
Most of the prisoners in the US are political prisoners guilty of nothing. Without a victim, there is no crime, yet the "authorities" have usurped the power to imprison people when no crime has been committed citing draconian and anti-American drug laws which have no reason for appearing in the criminal code other than to create profits for prison administrators and effectively neutralize the 4th amendment. |
JTR
16th February 2011 |
@AMWAY - Human rights? Really? I didn't know it was a human right to commit robbery, rape and murder. The reason those people are in prison is because they violated someone else's rights to their property or safety. I'm sure you think the police are the cause of crime. Blame the victim and side with the criminal, nice job. Well you have it backwards. Please tell me you don't vote, or reproduce. |
mentularum
4th February 2011 |
According to Wikipedia, England has 148 per 100,000, Scotland 139. I suppose that would make UK something like 146. |
voter
31st January 2011 |
Where's the United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, Wales? |
Clueless
28th January 2011 |
It appears that since we the US, coddle our prisoners it should be expected that we have the highest number of inmates. It isn't going to change for the better but for the worse. Imagine how much higher the number would be if all politicians were locked up? |
Jen C
19th January 2011 |
Nick-that sounds about right. You can't put in a number if you don't have it. |
Pierre F. Lherisson
8th December 2010 |
Nation Master is a good source for statistics but I don't understand why its statistics shows zero prisoners for the following countries: Cuba,Uganda,Egypt,Sudan,Ethiopia,Turkmenistan,Comoros,Zimbabwe. |
Ursulamargrit
22nd November 2010 |
Some countries will either flog people, hang or stone them, or cut their hands/feet off for criminal offenses. Very few people are in prison.
In some ways, flogging or getting killed is better than being in prison for years and years (unless they're like Canadian prisons, which are more like resorts). On the other hand, having your extremities cut off is barbaric. |
JOE
19th October 2010 |
0 out of 100,000 means that there are very few people incarcerated....
there may be 1 for every 200,000
and 5 for every 300,000
but the RATIO of imprisoned -to- free is very slim |
Nick
21st September 2010 |
Possibly zero means that there is no availible data? |
Marla
10th August 2010 |
Why do some countries have 0 per 100,000 such as Cuba? Are they saying there are no prisoners in Cuba? Or is their population less than that? What does it mean? |
Amway
30th July 2010 |
U.S top in the list..Geez, it's not surprised. U.S. does not practise what it preaches. Violation of human right in U.S. is rampant. |
TE
13th July 2010 |
Wow!The USA certainly has a lot of prisoners. Maybe it's because they have those sentences of 100's of years. |
Schruti
29th April 2010 |
The first prison in the Bahamas was opened in the late 1960's before that prisoners were kept in tents by the beach and allowed to go home on the weekends . |
qlue
18th April 2010 |
Egypt uses corporal punishment, no jails needed. Mugabe is the last criminal left in Zimbabwe, all the others are here in South Africa. Likewise, Cuba's criminals now live in Florida, USA. :p. |
Jody Mackey
3rd February 2010 |
China just happens to be listed with 119 prisoners per 100,000. I can't verify the data but that one is there. |
Boomer
2nd December 2009 |
@Michael Lovett
It's probably because we (United States) don't get reliable data from those nations. |
Q-isstanbul
3rd November 2009 |
where is UK? |
Michael Lovett
29th July 2009 |
I noticed that Egypt, #155, is listed as having no prisoners out of 100,000 in population, tied with other countries like Cuba and Zimbabwe. How is that explained? |
Richard English (England)
5th January 2009 |
What this list really tells us is that the methodology used to complie this survey is so poor as to be worthless. The statistics from ountries that have high prison populations (Zimbabwe, for example) but choose to lie and say they have no prisoners, are simpl accepted on face value.
At the very least there should be a note to warn users about the unreliability of some of the sources - indeed, it would probably be better were those countries' details to be shown as "no data available". |
Brittany (Pennsylvania)
17th November 2008 |
Maybe the citizens of the US shouldn't be given so many freedoms if they can't learn to control themselves. Their freedoms are only taken away when they go against the law, so why do we have so many rule breakers? Is our prison system not harsh enough to make people want to stay away? |
James (London)
22nd May 2006 |
The earliest and most well documented civil prison system that comes to my mind is that implemented by the ancient Romans well over 2000 years ago... My history's a little rough, so I'm not sure where European colonies in North America stand by that comparison. Still, if you say the US invented the prison system you must be right. Not sure how it explains the statistics though, the British invented football and we've only won one World Cup.
I think these statictics clearly demonstrate why the standard of living and quality of life in Egypt and Cuba is so coveted and why people are so desperate to leave the USA. |
John (Pennsylvania)
19th May 2006 |
The 1st max security prison in the US was in Phila. in the late 1800's.
It was not what you might think it was.
Standardss involved no talking,solitary confinement, beating for breaking the rules, and the only thing to read was the bible. Some required labor was preformed with no pay. Meals were in groups with the above rules in force.
I'm not sure but the French had off shore prisons in S. America as portrayed in the movie "Pappeon" sp., and the English using Austrila as a penial colony.
I'm sure all this stuff can be found someplace on the net but I just thought I'd like to comment. |
Rob
19th February 2006 |
The US certainly invented a new concept - Guantanamo Bay - the offshore prison exempt from normal human rights and the rule of international law. But I think prisons do go back to the dawn of civilization - all of our castles had dungeons 1000 years ago, and very nasty they were too. |
adam
31st January 2006 |
how can anyone invent the prison system...? |
Chris
5th November 2005 |
UK Statistics: With a prison cell capacity of about 75,000, which is always overfilled, you can estimate that there are about 150 prisoners per 100,000 population in the United Kingdom.
There's be a lot more inmates if the Brits weren't too cheap to build more prisons...... |
Liz
4th November 2005 |
Yes, UK was what I was looking for! Surely it must come above "Czech Republic" in this list, for we are constantly being told here that we imprison more people than anyone in Europe apart from Turkey. (The countries of the former Soviet Union - but not their satellites - count I believe more as part of Asia than Turkey does!) |
Finnegan
5th October 2005 |
In the category of 'Prisoners - Per capita' the conspicuous absence of a statistic for the United Kingdom makes it difficult to reference this source as authoritative. I also wonder if notation should be made for any dispute or possible discrepancy between the prison populations reported and those that may actually exist. |
John
27th July 2005 |
The US invented the prison system, so its no surprise that they are on top of that data listing. |
Dana Seccombe
29th May 2005 |
Do you have any data on recividism (fraction of prisoners who, once released, commit additional crimes)? |
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