Friday, August 09, 2002

Excellent story in The Economist about the absurdly high rate of imprisonment in the United States. The figures are truly staggering, and still rising. The US locks up 0.7% of its population (vastly higher for subsets), England and Wales (no slouch these days) manages 0.13%, and Japan only 0.05%. Most US conservatives believe the US penal system is far too lenient. Nice.

posted by Matthew @ 8/09/2002 12:34:00 PM Comments: 0