>>> The country now has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners. Strangely the "nation of Free" has double the number of people inside th

>>> The country now has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners. Strangely the "nation of Free" has double the number of people inside the prison than the "human rights violator" China. Number of prisoners. USA - 2,239,751 China - 1,640,000 And when you consider that China has a large population... the percentage of people inside the prison is enormous. http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php?country=190 http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php... http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php?country=91 http://www.prisonstudies.org/info/worldbrief/wpb_country.php... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...