Incarceration rates
The United States has only 5% of the global population but houses a quarter of the world’s prisoners.
This itself is strikingly sad fact. Moreover,
Black non-Hispanic males are incarcerated at a rate more than 6 times higher than white non-Hispanic males and 2.6 times higher than Hispanic males.
As usual, scandinavian countries fare the best.
Read more at: Incarceration rates around the world.
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