I can't seem to add to my question. but here is one source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_prison_population
2007-01-08 06:51:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Any info offered on that page which has a reference at the bottom should be fine as long as you do a quick check of the references themselves. That bit about the US having '25 percent of the world's incarcerated population' is not reliable and it even says 'citation needed'. That info could have come from anywhere, I could have made that up and added that to Wikipedia yesterday. You can't safely use Wikipedia as a source itself unless you are using info from the page which shows a reliable source at the bottom of the page. Then, your source would not be Wikipedia, it would be the primary or secondary source they used.
2007-01-08 07:08:59 · answer #1 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere on that page can I find a claim that the US has 25% of the world's incarcerated population. Could you point out that part?
2007-01-08 06:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by Citicop 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋