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Article: Prison population in SA among the world's highest.(News)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2008
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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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