In the past thirty years, the United States has quadrupled its incarceration rate but not its prison space.
The incarceration rate in Britain has more than doubled, and that in Japan increased by half, over the period.
The incarceration rate for black men, according to figures published last year, is eight times that for white men.
In a country with such a high incarceration rate, there will probably be a lot more cases of pruno poisoning in prisons.
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In a telling development, the city's overall incarceration rate has also declined.
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In 2010, Duval County, which Corey oversees, "had the highest incarceration rate of any jurisdiction over 500, 000 in Florida, " the professors note.
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But while other countries stayed where they were, the American incarceration rate then took off to 313 per 100, 000 in 1985 and 648 in 1997.
The incarceration rate in the U.S. does not bespeak a free society: 743 per 100, 000 residents as of end of 2009, versus, for instance, 133 in Australia.
As a result, America's incarceration rate has quadrupled since 1970.
In some places where crime has dropped most, such as New York, the incarceration rate is not as high and has not risen as fast as the national average.
I'm not even talking about the disastrous war on drugs, the primary reason for the high incarceration rate of young African-Americans, rendering them radioactive to employers for the rest of their lives.
In reality, America's incarceration rate increased nearly ten fold between 1973 and 2000 at a time when, according to the Census Bureau's National Crime Victimisation Survey, the crime rate was relatively flat or falling.
The rate of incarceration in most other rich, free countries, whatever the differences in their histories, is remarkably steady.
Given the rate of incarceration for rapists, the lack of JUSTICE for this crime, why would Black women report this violation?
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From 1990 to 2009, while the rest of the nation increased its rate of incarceration by 65%, New York City decreased its prison and jail rates by 28%.
We have both a frighteningly high murder rate and a frighteningly high level of incarceration.
This dependence on incarceration was linked to the belief that street crime is committed by persistent "high-rate" offenders who will continue to offend if they are not locked up.
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