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On January 1, 2008 more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail.[7][8] Total US incarceration peaked in 2008.[1]
In addition to the overall highest incarceration rate,
the United States also has the highest rate of female incarceration. According to a November 2017 report by the World Prison Brief around 212,000 of the 714,000 female prisoners worldwide (women and girls) are incarcerated in the United States.[9] In the United States in 2015, women made up 10.4% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails.[10] In most countries, the proportion of female inmates to the larger prison population is closer to one in twenty. Australia is the exception where the rate of female imprisonment increased from 9.2 percent in 1991 to 15.3 percent in 1999.[11]
Comparing other English-speaking developed countries,[3] whereas the incarceration rate in the US is 660 per 100,000 population of all ages (as of 2016 table above),[1] the incarceration rate of Canada is 114 per 100,000 (as of 2015),[12] England and Wales is 146 per 100,000 (as of 2016),[13] and Australia is 160 per 100,000 (as of 2016).[14] Comparing other developed countries, the rate of Spain is 133 per 100,000 (as of 2016),[15] France is 110 per 100,000 (as of 2016),[16] Germany is 76 per 100,000 (as of 2016),[17] Norway is 73 per 100,000 (as of 2016),[18] Netherlands is 69 per 100,000 (as of 2014),[19] and Japan is 48 per 100,000 (as of 2014).[20]
In addition, the United States has striking statistics when observing the racial dimension of mass incarceration. According to Michelle Alexander, the United States "imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid."[21]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarceration_and_correctional_supervision_rate
I view this as De Facto disenfranchisement of the electorate by race and gender.
Do you believe these women and African Americans while still in prison should be allowed to vote?
Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
If I were to vote in a presidential
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