Given Hacker News's passion for North Korea, we should note Wikipedia, citing "Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (2012) The Hidden Gulag, 2nd ed.", list

Given Hacker News's passion for North Korea, we should note Wikipedia, citing "Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (2012) The Hidden Gulag, 2nd ed.", lists a rate for North Korea (6-8 per 1,000) about the same as the United States (7 per 1,000). This page -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... -- lists several countries with comparable rates not fully treated in the page in the original link.