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Incarceration numbers. Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Location Rates Number Afghanistan 45 19,000 Albania 168 4,565 Algeria 217 94,749 American Samoa (USA) 538 301 Andorra 60 51 Angola 68 24,490 Anguilla (United Kingdom) 240 36 Antigua and Barbuda 400 400 Argentina 254 117,810 Armenia 83 2,469 Aruba (Netherlands) 288 311 Australia: 157 ...
Between 2000 and 2017, the incarceration rate for white women increased by 44%, while at the same time declining by 55% for African American women. [70] The Sentencing Project reports that by 2021, incarceration rates had declined by 70% for African American women, while rising by 7% for white women. [71]
Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [9] the overall incarceration rate in the U.S. was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [14] England and Wales was 146 per 100,000 in 2023, [15] and Australia was 158 per 100,000 in 2022. [16]
To give context, during the racial discrimination of apartheid in South Africa, the prison rate for black male South Africans, rose to 851 per 100,000." [34] A major contributor to the high incarceration rates is the length of the prison sentences in the United States. One of the criticisms of the United States system is that it has much longer ...
Between 2000 and 2017, the incarceration rate for white women increased by 44%, while at the same time declining by 55% for African American women. [46] The Sentencing Project reports that by 2021, incarceration rates had declined by 70% for African American women, while rising by 7% for white women. [47]
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Including homicide victims in 2019 where the race was unknown, 53.7% were black or African-American, 41.6% were white, 3% were of other races, and 1.7% were of unknown races. [49] [50] The per-capita offending rate for African-Americans was roughly eight times higher than that of whites, and their victim rate was similar. About half of ...
Race has been a factor in the United States criminal justice system since the system's beginnings, as the nation was founded on Native American soil. [32] It continues to be a factor throughout United States history through the present, with organizations such as Black Lives Matter calling for decarceration through divestment from police and prisons and reinvestment in public education and ...