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Prison population in SA among the world's highest.(News)

BYLINE: Justine Gerardy

South Africa has the world's seventh highest number of prisoners - outranking countries with up to nearly five times our population.

The World Prison Brief places South Africa's total of 166 267 prisoners after the United States (2,3-million inmates), China (1,6-million), Russia (888 014), Brazil (419 551), India (358 368) and Mexico (217 436).

The populations of the top six countries on the list range from 104-million in Mexico to 1,3-billion people in China - with a combined total of 3-billion people.

South Africa has just 47,8-million citizens.

Gideon Morris, director of the Cape Town-based Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons, ...

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