Rock_on_2008 on 11 May 2008
I will post the link with the statistics on prisoner rates of the US.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pri-crime-prisoners
^ US is ranked number 1 for prisoner numbers as of 23rd April 2008 is reported to have over 2 million prisoners out of a total of 8.34 million prisoners. Second place Chine is around half a million behind the US, China has 5 times the population of the US.
