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Just crunching some numbers here, and these are rough estimates, presented without comment: - Norway: 4,000 prisoners / 5M population (0.08% incarceration) -
by jonnathanson 13y ago
Just crunching some numbers here, and these are rough estimates, presented without comment:
- Norway: 4,000 prisoners / 5M population (0.08% incarceration)
- United Kingdom: 84,000 prisoners / 63M pop. (0.13%)
- United States: 2,270,000 prisoners / 317M pop. (0.72%)
The US prison population rises to about 7M when you include everyone "under correctional supervision" (e.g., in probation, on parole, in jail, etc.), increasing to a >2% figure. But I don't have apples-to-apples figures for the UK and Norway in this regard.
- vacri 13y agoThe usual way to refer to incarcerated population is per 100k population. Norway is around 70/100k, 'first world' countries in general are around 70-150/100k, New Zealand is an outlier at 200/100k and the US is an extreme outlier at ~720/100k. The US really is way out of step with its contemporaries on this issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...
- jonnathanson 13y agoGot it, thanks for the clarification. But either way, the US looks pretty bad on this metric.