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BUFDRVR wrote:
Some how he managed to make pilot of a B-52.
A bus-driver can be taught to fly those tanks...
Spoken like someone who can't ride a bike.
Sez the moron who is ignorant of the fact that
there are ~ 347,000 people currently
incarcerated in the U$$A who have not been
convicted of the crime charged.
U.S. CONTINUES TO BE WORLD LEADER IN RATE OF INCARCERATION
As a result of the continuing rise in the prison population in the United States
along with a major
prisoner amnesty in Russia, the U.S. rate of incarceration surpassed that of
Russia in 2000 and
the U.S. is now the world leader in imprisonment. The U.S. rate of 699 prisoners
per 100,000
population1 is now greater than the Russian rate, which declined from 730 per
100,000 in 1999 to
644 per 100,000 in 2001.2
Russia has been facing severe overcrowding in its penal facilities for many
years, with inmates in
pretrial detention sometimes waiting as long as several years for their cases to
come to trial. In
response to this crisis, the Russian Parliament approved an amnesty that
resulted in the release of
120,000 pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders. This reduced the inmate
population to
934,000 as of February 2001. As many as 250,000 more prisoners may be released
as a result of
the amnesty during the next two to three years.3
The U.S. rate of incarceration has been increasing continuously for nearly
thirty years. From
approximately 330,000 inmates in prison and jail in 1972, the inmate population
has grown to
1,933,503 by the end of 2000.4 In comparison to other industrialized nations,
the U.S. rate of
incarceration is 5-8 times that of Canada and most of western Europe.
A majority of inmates in U.S. prisons are housed for non-violent offenses. The
population in
state prisons is comprised of 48% violent offenders, 21% property offenders, 21%
drug
offenders, and 10% public order and other offenses. In federal prisons, the
inmate breakdown
consists of 11% violent offenders, 7% property offenders, 57% drug offenders,
and 24% public
order and other offenders.5 Of the 621,000 inmates in local jails, 56% are
awaiting trial and 44%
are serving sentences. There are an estimated 485,000 persons either serving
time or awaiting
trial for a drug offense.6
The attached tables list the world's ten leading nations in rate of
incarceration and provide
comparisons of the U.S. rate of incarceration.
1 US rate is for December 2000, from Allen Beck and Paige Harrison, Prisoners in
2000, Bureau of Justice
Statistics, US Department of Justice, August 2001.
2 The Russian rate of incarceration is calculated for February 2001 from figures
provided to the International Center
for Prison Studies by the Russian State Statistics Committee, adjusted to
reflect the recent releases.
3 RIA news agency, Moscow, quoted in Penal Reform International's Newsletter on
Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, Spring/Summer 2001.
4.Beck and Harrison.
5 Beck and Harrison.
6 Data calculated from various reports of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
TEN LEADING NATIONS IN INCARCERATION RATES
Source: Rate for Russia calculated from figures cited on previous page; for the
US Prisoners in 2000: for all other
nations, Roy Walmsley, World Prison Population List (2nded.), United Kingdom
Home Office Research,
Development and Statistics Directorate, July 2000. Incarceration data were
collected on varying dates within the
period 1997 through 1999.
Incarceration Rate (number of people in prison per 100,000 population)
699 United States of America
665 Cayman Islands
644 Russia
575 Belarus
495 Kazakhstan
485 Bahamas
475 US Virgin Islands
460 Belize
445 Bermuda
440 Kyrgyzstan
RATE OF INCARCERATION IN SELECTED NATIONS
Source: Rate for Russia calculated from figures cited on previous page; for the
US Prisoners in 2000: for all other
nations, Roy Walmsley, World Prison Population List (2nded.), United Kingdom
Home Office Research,
Development and Statistics Directorate, July 2000.
Incarceration Rate (number of people in prison per 100,000 population)
699 United States of America
644 Russia
400 South Africa
125 United Kingdom
110 Canada
110 Australia
110 Spain
95 Germany
90 France
90 Italy
90 Netherlands
85 Switzerland
60 Sweden
40 Japan
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