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A new edition of the World Prison Population List is now available. Produced by Roy Walmsley of King's College London International Centre for Prison Studies, the list makes a best attempt to draw together statistics from countries around the world. It complements the Centre's World Prison Brief...

"The US has less than 5% of the world's population but over 23% of the world's incarcerated people." In a new Fact Sheet , the National Council on Crime and Delinquency compares United States incarceration rates with those of other countries around the world. The report relies in part...