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... The prison and jail population rose by 25,000 to 2.3 million last year, out of a US adult population of 230 million...
By comparison, China, with a population of one billion people, was second in the world with 1.5 million inmates...
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That's quite a marked contrast. Particularly when you take into account China's less than sterling human rights record (jailing of 'dissidents' etc).