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 === Countries with high incarceration rates ===
 #[[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, one had to add for accuracy until recently)]. 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 - 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.