+ More than 9.25 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, mostly as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or as sentenced prisoners. Almost half of these are in the United States (2.19m), China (1.55m plus pre- trial detainees and prisoners in ‘administrative detention’) or Russia (0.87m).
+ The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, some 738 per 100,000 of the national population, followed by Russia (611), St Kitts & Nevis (547), U.S. Virgin Is. (521), Turkmenistan (c.489), Belize (487), Cuba (c.487), Palau (478), British Virgin Is. (464), Bermuda (463), Bahamas (462), Cayman Is. (453), American Samoa (446), Belarus (426) and Dominica (419).
+ However, more than three fifths of countries (61%) have rates below 150 per 100,000. (The rate in England and Wales - 148 per 100,000 of the national population - is above the mid-point in the World List.)
2007-08-25 12:53:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The number 1 reason is that the U.S. is one of the least proactive countries (of all modern countries) in the world, in terms of addressing poverty, racism, disenfranchisement and cultural collapse. Other countries work much harder and contribute much more in those areas, and they reap the benefits. They are much healthier socially and their crime-rates are much lower.
The U.S., and conservatives in particular, look at the numbers and chalk them up to specific groups that are "to blame" for the exaggerated statistics; illegal Mexican immigrants, the poor, blacks, Native Americans... etc.
It's pathetic. As long as they keep trying to rationalize away the realities, nothing will substantially improve. They'll fight all the wars... the war on illegal immigration, the war on drugs, the war on poverty (the war on the impoverished)... and the problems will escalate.
As a final note, America has about 12% of the worlds population, but 1/3 of the world prison population is incarcerated in the United States.
That's bizarre.
2007-08-25 13:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Maybe because we take our laws seriously and arrest criminals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How can you compare us to Cuba or the Cayman Islands?
We are about( guessing here) 500 times bigger than Cuba.
We probably have 50 cities that are bigger than the Cayman Islands.
Our National Parks are bigger than France and Spain put together.
A really good comparison would show percentage of all people in the prison population.
2007-08-25 13:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by FOA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because China executes felons on the spot with roving death trucks. Over 500,000 of our prison population is made up of illegal immigrants
2007-08-25 13:18:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”--quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russian Novelist and Writer, 1821-1881)
2007-08-25 13:56:10 · answer #4 · answered by Biotech Boy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Zionists in control want it that way! The have been thought controlling the masses for the longest to assist the goyim to their destiny.
2007-08-25 13:22:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...that's easy... "we" coddle our prisoners... make it comfortable... cells with color TV's..."special" perks etc.
Most "other" Nations don't put up with "crap" that "we" do. They don't have to answer to the ACLU or the Liberals who would otherwise serve breakfast in bed for the convicted slugs that fill our prisons and jails... and our "repeat" offenders are a disgrace... Many "other" Nations (even tho they don't support Capitol punishment) for repeat offenders, just "take them for a ride"............a one way ride.
2007-08-25 13:15:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
#1. The U.S. has ridiculous marijuana laws.
#2. China utilizes the death penalty much more freely than the U.S.
2007-08-25 13:11:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my guess is that their legal system takes care of things differently, in other words many of the criminals never have a trial. The police shoot the criminal and say it was in self-defense.
2007-08-25 13:05:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
too many laws.
It is entirely impossible to keep up on every law that we have. America has become a country of politicians telling us how to live, not making laws to protect our rights.
For every situation they ban, it makes the now illegal good or service that much more valuable for criminals to supply.
Since now it offers another method for criminals to make more money than a college grad, it entices people who have no respect for law to break them in order to captialize on the higher profit created by lower supply.
2007-08-25 12:55:37 · answer #9 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because we imprison people who break the Law and we don't hide it unlike other countries did you count political prisoners
2007-08-25 13:00:05 · answer #10 · answered by tap158 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋