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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. | 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. | ||
=== Countries === | === Countries with high incarceration rates === | ||
#[[Seychelles]] 799 - | #[[Seychelles]] 799. Until 2016, the Seychelles were the world's number one incarcerating nation with a peak at 799 per 100,000 inhabitants. Only that they never did have as many inhabitants. The Seychelles were used as a depository for Somalian pirates, but most imprisonment - experts spoke of 70% - had to do with drug-related offenses. A kind of mass amnesty that set 150 drug offenders free let the rate drop well below the 500 mark, but since the tough drug laws of the country have simultaneously been further stiffened, things might soon return to the old normal. | ||
#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] | #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] | #[[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] | ||