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In reply to the discussion: What is to stop Barr from ARRESTING Mueller, Hillary, and the heads of the Intelligence Community? [View all]PufPuf23
(8,774 posts)14. The USA has the highest rate of incarnation of any country in the World
In September 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners.[1] Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.[2][3]
At the end of 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative estimated that in the United States, about 2,298,300 people were incarcerated out of a population of 324.2 million. This means that 0.7% of the population was behind bars. Of those who were incarcerated, about 1,316,000 people were in state prison, 615,000 in local jails, 225,000 in federal prisons, 48,000 in youth correctional facilities, 34,000 in immigration detention camps, 22,000 in involuntary commitment, 11,000 in territorial prisons, 2,500 in Indian Country jails, and 1,300 in United States military prisons.[4]
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Comparing some countries with similar percentages of immigrants, Germany has an incarceration rate of 76 per 100,000 population (as of 2014),[25] Italy is 85 per 100,000 (as of 2015),[26] and Saudi Arabia is 161 per 100,000 (as of 2013).[27] Comparing other countries with a zero tolerance policy for illegal drugs, the rate of Russia is 455 per 100,000 (as of 2015),[28] Kazakhstan is 275 per 100,000 (as of 2015),[29] Singapore is 220 per 100,000 (as of 2014),[30] and Sweden is 60 per 100,000 (as of 2014).[31]
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What is to stop Barr from ARRESTING Mueller, Hillary, and the heads of the Intelligence Community? [View all]
ProudMNDemocrat
May 2019
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I think if Rump's feeling enough heat & Barr spins up quasi indictments that pass the mouth-breather
Celerity
May 2019
#29
protest the rw radio stations and universities that support them and republicans will fall apart
certainot
May 2019
#43
when you have the president, the entire judicial department and the senate majority on your side...
spanone
May 2019
#32
Barr's job is to politically damage and harass Trump's opponents, not to jail them.
Freethinker65
May 2019
#21