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Article: The United States is the world's leading jailer: Human Rights Watch

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June 7, 2008
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Washington, June 7 -- The United States is the world's leading jailer, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report

New figures show that US incarceration rates are climbing even higher, with racial minorities greatly over represented in prisons and jails, thus highlighting the need to adopt alternative criminal justice policies, Human Rights Watch said today.

David Fathi, US program director at Human Rights Watch. "Americans should ask why the US locks up so many more people than do Canada, Britain, and other democracies."

Statistics released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a branch of the US Department of ...

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