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WPB notes this: "As it is not possible to obtain meaningful comparative data on numbers of children in custody in different countries, we do not include juvenile imprisonment data in the highest to lowest lists." [1] Note: Table data fully updated Oct 22, 2024. Some individual countries since then.
[7] [8] In 2015 the US had the 2nd highest incarceration rate (698), behind the Seychelles rate of 799 per 100,000. [5] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 (as of 2020), [9] England and Wales was 146 per 100,000 (as of 2023), [10] and Australia was 158 per 100,000 (as of 2022). [11]
The basis of the new Finnish model is "humane neoclassical crime policy” (Lappi-Seppala, 2002). By shifting their focus onto situational crime prevention tactics and enforcing local crime rehabilitation measures Finland has been able to successfully go from one of the highest incarceration rates in the world to one of the lowest.
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]
If Kentucky were its own country, the commonwealth would have a higher incarceration rate than any nation except El Salvador, a new report from the Prison Policy Initiative shows.. The report ...
Total U.S. incarceration (prisons and jails) peaked in 2008. Total correctional population peaked in 2007. [14] If all prisoners are counted (including those juvenile, territorial, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (immigration detention), Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the United States had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners.
The World Prison Brief at PrisonStudies.org is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is now hosted by the Institute For Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), [1] Birkbeck College, University of London.
If you didn't already know it, Americans spend more per capita on health care than any other nation on the planet. I recently listed the countries with the highest health-care costs, with the U.S ...