under 5% of the world population but over 20% of the world prison population

“This report shows that more than 10.35 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, …”
“There are more than 2.2 million prisoners in the United States of America, …”
From the report: US population=317.76m, world population=7,172m

above figures as of October 2015, figures on map below may be more recent


document* in the reader is cited on the NICC (DOJ) US government website*


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*a link; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer; see also the about post and the archives of miscellany, notrehta, or fw posts

2022-12-18 Chris Hedges: Teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in Prison*
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