Prisoners/100' by Country

Amazing! Thanks Zonk. That's certainly food for thought.

I always knew that the US was on top with putting its people behind bars, but what's up with Poland?

Prisoners per 100 feet?

How 'bout privatized prisons that sell prisoners' labor thereby creating a profit motive for incarceration?

http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/...

Ethnic minorities that commit far more crime on a per capita basis( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... and http://www.laboratoryofthes... - Hispanics commit crime at 3x the rate of whites, but Asians commit at about 1/3 the rate of whites) + stricter crime policies are the primary causes. Prisoners per 100k pop?

Can we add a y axis of police per capita and use a scatter plot instead of a bar graph?

Just to point out that the figure for Italy is lower. Possibly 90. A few months ago the Italian government had the nice idea of releasing one every four inmates through a general pardon, because jails were so overcrowded that the situation was going out of any control. Immediately, the crime rate went up. The number of rapes, for instance, rocketed. Italian politicians... smart people.

TSM - WRONG! Committing crime cannot be counted. All that is counted is the incidents reported, the arrest rate, and the conviction rate. If race is a problem in America, then you will see minorities being arrested and convicted far MORE than whites, even if they commit the same crime. It's also a matter of economics. We would need to see rates of poverty as well in order to make a connection.

http://www.peace.ca/truthab...
http://ccj.sagepub.com/cgi/...
http://www.roxbury.net/crm....
http://chronicle.com/weekly...

Some of those articles will need academic access, either through your own subscription or through your university. Happy reading!