This map shows you just how many prisoners are in each US state

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The incarceration rate in the US is the highest in the world.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, although the US is home to only 5 percent of the world's population, it boasts 25 percent of the world's prisoners. About one in 100 American adults are behind bars, the Economist reports.

If those stats aren't enough to shock you, consider that the state of New Hampshire alone has about the same number of prisoners as the entire country of Israel.

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Here is a visual aid that helps elucidate why. The map below compares prisoner populations in individual US states with prisoner populations from different countries around the world.





Full article http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/141226/map-US-prison-population-compared-international

O'er the Land of the--- uh, ah, never mind.

[tblue]

1. Ick. That's a lot of people.

Sad state of affairs. Literally. Keep me far and away from Texas and Louisiana, and those other big-prison states. God help the people who live there.

[Unknown Beatle]

2. You have to take

into account the population of each state. E.g. Texas is the second most populous state with close to 27 million inhabitants. Louisiana, on the other hand, is 25th with 4 million 7 hundred thousand inhabitants. Louisiana has a larger percentage of people incarcerated than Texas. Much, much larger. Not even close.

I live in Texas but in a very blue county but with gerrymandering, voter I.D., hacked voting machines, and the disenfranchisement of voters, the repugs have a strong foothold in controlling political outcomes. In other words, it sucks big time.

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. The stats show prisoners per 100,000 population

[66 dmhlt]

4. As noted, the map already DID factor in population

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12. Louisiana DOES Have a Substantially-Higher Incarceration Rate Than Texas

So, technically, Unknown Beatle is correct.

[MinM]

5. Aramark®

As I mentioned in this thread Mark Schauer could have beaten Rick Snyder in Michigan if he would have pushed harder on privatizing prisons and specifically Aramark. It's a huge nasty business.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10581291

[Jefferson23]

6. ..consider that the state of New Hampshire alone has about the same number of prisoners as

as the entire country of Israel.


Oh yea, we're free alright..free of sanity.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. I don't understand these numbers

If the US as a whole has about 1% of its people as prisoners, then the number of prisoners per 100,000 should be about 1,000. That should be the _average_. But in the chart above, none of the states even has that many - the highest, LA, is less than that. So, either the map is wrong or the estimate of 1% is vastly wrong.

Unless it is 1% of adults are behind bars, and the map is also counting children and infants . . . .

[blkmusclmachine]

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[Hoppy]

9. Whatdafuxamatter with Maine?

CCA Needs money.

[Stuart G]

10. Outstanding Post...Thanks for the information......k and r..nt

[stuffmatters]

11. Delaware?

Are private prisons exceptionally powerful there or....?

thanks for this important info, k&r