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> The goal is to rehabilitate the country’s roughly 3,600 prisoners ... 3600 prisoners in a population of around 5m? This is somewhat incredible in its own rig
by JonoBB 12y ago
> The goal is to rehabilitate the country’s roughly 3,600 prisoners ...
3600 prisoners in a population of around 5m? This is somewhat incredible in its own right.
- easytiger 12y agoJust for context norway population / 3600 = 1388 ireland population / 3,892 = 1203 uk population / 85,493 = 743 usa population / 1,574,741 = 208 --So the ratio is worse than the USA and prob doesn't mean too much.-- edit Completely misunderstood my own numbers... moving too quick. Will leave here
- ErikHuisman 12y agoHow is one in every 1388 people worse than one in every 208?
- JonoBB 12y agoYou've got things the wrong way around.
- pjc50 12y agoThe US is the incredible place: 25% of the world's prisoners for 5% of the world's population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat... There aren't that many criminals unless people go to special effort to create them.
- U006D 12y ago>This is somewhat incredible in its own right. Not really. I'm from an average Eastern European country and the rate of prisoners per capita is about the same.