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 #[[Seychelles]] 799 - Some 70% of inmates are there for drug-related offenses; Seychelles prisons also serve as a depository for Somalian pirates
-#United States of America	693 - [http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/30/incarceration-and-crime-rates-fall-in-ta  The U.S. incarceration rate fell from 690 to 670 per 100,000 people, which is still higher than that of any country except Seychelles. Drug offenders accounted for half of federal prisoners and 16 percent of state prisoners in 2015. The decrease in the federal prison population was largely due to shorter drug sentences]
+#United States of America	693 - [http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/30/incarceration-and-crime-rates-fall-in-ta  The U.S. incarceration rate fell from 690 to 670 per 100,000 people, which is still higher than that of any country except Seychelles. Drug offenders account for half of federal prisoners and 16 percent of state prisoners. A decrease in the federal prison population was largely due to shorter drug sentences]
 #[[St. Kitts and Nevis]]	607 - [http://issat.dcaf.ch/Learn/Resource-Library/Country-Profiles/Saint-Kitts-and-Nevis-Country-Profile The islands serve as a transhipment point in the transnational drug trade]
-#Turkmenistan	583
+#Turkmenistan	583 - High rate due to ruthless punishment of any alternative political or religious expression. Presumably, prisons also hold many people who forcibly disappeared. Torture to extract “confessions” and incriminate others is common in spite of recent anti-torture legislation. Sources describe the use of dogs, batons, and subsequent loss of consciousness, damage to the kidneys, and the inability to walk. So-called kartsers or cylindrical dark solitary confinement cells can be the location of people before or after secret trials, and family members often do not receive information whatsoever.
-#Virgin Islands (U.S.)	542
+#Virgin Islands (U.S.)	542 - [http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/09/virgin.islands.prisons/index.html Justice Department officials are so fed up with a drug-infested, violence-wracked prison in the U.S. Virgin Islands] they did something they had never done before -- they went to court and asked to entirely take over operation of the institution. The request for a federal judge in St. Croix to appoint a federal receiver came as stabbings, firearms and filth mounted at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional and Detention Facility. "The deplorable conditions at Golden Grove continue to deteriorate after years of noncompliance with court orders," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. "This agency has left us with no choice but to seek the drastic measure of receivership," Perez said. "Receivership is the last resort," said U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands Ronald Sharpe. "We arrive at this juncture only after spending the last 25 years exhausting every other viable alternative," he said. Justice Department officials said the prisoners live in unsafe, filthy and hazardous conditions without required medical and mental health care. Contraband -- including weapons, illegal drugs, restricted street clothing and electronics -- flows freely into the prison.
 #El Salvador	541
 #Cuba	510