How come the USA has more people in prison per 100,000 than other countries?

Answer 1

You do the crime you do the time, and tough laws.

Answer 2

1. This is the latest attempt from the Confederacy to oppress non-whites. Confederates have never stopped their war against minorities...and they just continue to get more creative with their hatred. This is part of the corporation-christian alliance...paranoid whites fear all non-whites...corporations make big money criminalizing the perceived threat to the mighty white culture

2. There are big profits to be had privatizing the caging of people...payback for corporate contributions/bribes to our wonderful elected leaders

3. If you're going to sell fear to keep the people in line then you've gotta back up your fear-mongering with a bunch of criminals...and look at all the poor people, especially minorities...just right for caging

4. There are big profits to be had in The War On Drugs...yet another failed program that imprisons thousands of non-violent people...mostly minorities... big profits here for corporations smart enough to buy some politicians

5. The corporations, the financial elites...with their government and their media have been waging ruthless class warfare in America (and abroad) since 1980


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For the person several posts above challenging the validity of the question....



"""""US notches world's highest incarceration rate
A report highlights extent to which many citizens have served time in prison.

By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world. """""

"""If current trends continue, it means that a black male in the United States would have about a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison during his lifetime. For a Hispanic male, it's 1 in 6; for a white male, 1 in 17. """

Answer 3

Hopefully my answer will not be the only intelligent one that you receive. In America we have this misperception. We say we have freedom but as your questions states, more of our people are locked up that any other country in the world. That does not represent freedom. One part of the problem is the so called war on drugs. For the first time in the history of our country, drug offenses make up the majority of people in prison. That means most people in prison are there for misdemeanors and non violent crimes. You are punished more harshly for an addiction than murderers, rapists, and child molesters. It is very sad and I am upset that their is not more attention paid to it. People who are violent should spend more time in jail than someone who has an addiction.

Answer 4

Several factors. In America, our law enforcement actually works and we are a much larger and more populous nation than most of the other countries.

Communist Russia had higher prison populations, especially for people asking these types of questions, and China will always beat us when it comes to prison populations.

Saddam's Iraq had a lower prison population than we did because most never even made it to prison. They were shot in the head and then buried in an unmarked mass grave for exercising self-evident freedoms. Have you checked the prison populations in Pakistan and Iran and Syria?

Have you done any research at all before posting this question?

Answer 5

Because the drug laws were established in order to keep the lower classes under police surveillance. That way it is possible for the government to criminalize being young and poor and avoid a the growth of a meaningful socialist movement.
Every police state claims they are fighting criminals and terrorists. By the way, the greatest massacre of recent times was not VT(32)but Attica (39). That shows you how little the lives of the young and poor count.

Answer 6

Could be any number of reasons. A country might have fewer inmates because it lacks the law enforcement resources to capture and incarcerate lawbreakers. Or it could be because it criminalizes fewer activities (American prisons are full of drug offenders, they would not be in jail if the drugs in question were not illegal). Or it could prefer fines, corporal or capital punishment to imprisonment.

Answer 7

For one thing drug smugglers seem to get pampered and Border Agents thrown in jail.

But if someone gets caught with dope they can be in prison a long time in some states.

There also is a demand for the slave labor of prisoners by Industries here making it profitable to secure more prisoners.

Answer 8

People are normally in prison because the commited a crime. One could come up with a theory having to do with more crimes being commited in USA. hmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 9

We have too many people in prison because of our drug laws. Those in prison because of violent crime serve too many times as they do too many crimes. Maybe we should borrow a page from the Saudis play book. Public floggings and be-headings have a strong deterrent influence.

Answer 10

Because we have more laws that are enforced thru the courts. Unlike some places where a shoplifter gets a hand cut off, and if he does it again he gets the other cut off. Or a murderer is stoned to death by the public.

Answer 11

And guess who's at the head of the prison list? Their are a bigger % of illigals who are in prison for big time crimes then any other group. And you just thought they wanted a job cutting your grass....