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Whether called mass incarceration, mass imprisonment, the prison boom, the carceral state, or hyperincarceration, this phenomenon refers to the current American experiment in incarceration, which is defined by comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment. Mass incarceration is a term used to describe the substantial increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United States' prisons over the past forty years. The prison population of the United States dwarfs the prison populations of every other developed country in the world. In the U.S., every speech, every op-ed, every white paper about criminal justice starts with the same data points: The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world prisoners, more prisoners than soldiers, more correction officers than marines, more prisons than Walmarts.

#[[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 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]