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    US incarceration is 5 to 10 times higher than that of other NATO countries

    Updated by Katherine Hicks on June 16, 2016, 3:50 p.m. ET @kt_hix katherine.hicks@vox.com

    A Prison Policy Initiative study showed that the United States’ incarceration rate is literally off the charts when compared with other countries.

    The United States’ incarceration rate, which currently stands at 693 for every 100,000 people, far exceeds all other "stable, internally secure, industrialized nations," PPI said in the report. As Vox’s Dara Lind recently pointed out, the rate of incarceration in the United States is drastically higher today than it has ever been.

    PPI’s report, published Thursday, shows the rate in the US is five to 10 times that of other NATO countries. To compare, the country with the second highest rate among NATO members is the United Kingdom, which incarcerates 145 per 100,000 people.



    PPI also released a graph comparing state incarceration rates with national statistics as a whole. Incarceration rates were higher than the national average in 22 states. Eleven states stood between the US national average and the second-highest country on the list, Turkmenistan.



    Turkmenistan has an authoritarian government whose human rights record has been criticized by the US State Department, but, as shown above, the District of Columbia alone has an incarceration rate that more than doubles that of the Middle Eastern country.

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    Must be all teh guns...
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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptUSA View Post
    Must be all teh guns...
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    For-profit prisons don't help.
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    The drug wars helped that along.
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slave Mentality View Post
    For-profit prisons don't help.
    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    The drug wars helped that along.
    There's money to be made in the drug-war...

    I'd like nothing better than to see every tax-tick involved thrashed to within an inch of their lives and exiled to Antarctica. Start with all of governments lawyers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    There's money to be made in the drug-war...

    I'd like nothing better than to see every tax-tick involved thrashed to within an inch of their lives and exiled to Antarctica. Start with all of governments lawyers.
    And make sure they have no pain pills are allowed.
    “The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
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    Quote Originally Posted by donnay View Post
    And make sure they have no pain pills are allowed.
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