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Article: An international perspective of imprisonment in the early 21st Century: With just less than 5 percent of the world's total population, the united states has 23 percent of the world's inmates. (Commentary).(Editorial)
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- Corrections Today
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- February 1, 2002
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There are nearly 2 million men, women and children in federal and state prisons and local jails in the United States, a greater proportion than any other country in the world. If one includes those on some form of parole, this figure rises to 6.3 million; that is 3.1 percent of all U.S. residents, according to the United States Department of Justice. With just less than 5 percent of the world's total population, the United States has 23 percent of the world's inmates, according to a presentation at the United Nations Programme Network Institutes Technical Assistance Workshop last year. In the District of Columbia, Louisiana and Texas, more than 1 percent of the entire ...
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