One in 100 US adults behind bars: study
More than one in 100 adults are now behind bars in the United States, home to the world's largest penal population, with a startling
one in nine young black men incarcerated, a study showed Thursday.
The prison and jail population rose by 25,000 to
2.3 million last year, out of a US adult population of 230 million, bringing the incarceration rate to one in 99.1 for the first time in US history, the Pew Center on the States said.
By comparison,
China, with a population of one billion people, was second in the world with 1.5 million inmates, followed by Russia with 890,000 people in the slammer, the study said.
America also has the dubious distinction of leading the planet in the rate of incarceration, which is higher than nations like South Africa and Iran, the study said.
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Thats a high rate of incarceration, dwarfing places like China, Iran and North Korea.
I don't think we can blame illegal immigration for this one.
Education? Ghettos/ Projects? Minimum wages, which are very low in the US?