An international perspective of imprisonment in the early 21st Century: With just less than 5 percent of the world's total population, the united states has 23 percent of the world's inmates. (Commentary).(Editorial) Corrections Today | February 1, 2002| | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Correctional Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

There are nearly 2 million men, women and children in federal and state prisons and local jails in the United States, a greater proportion than any other country in the world. If one includes those on some form of parole, this figure rises to 6.3 million; that is 3.1 percent of all U.S. residents, according to the United States Department of Justice. With just less than 5 percent of the world's total population, the United States has 23 percent of the world's inmates, according to a presentation at the United Nations Programme Network Institutes Technical Assistance Workshop ...

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