Which country has the largest prison inmate population?
Correct answer: U.S.A.
RushMama2112
The for-profit prisons must go! Their only incentive is to makes as much $$$ as they can for themselves and shareholders. Inmates are treated as assets, not humans. We've allowed the a system that should never be privatized to see inmates only as a bottom line. It's obscene.
Frances60
Ginger, I worked in the prison system for 11 years and the inmate was offered all you mentioned. I was a teacher. While incarcerated they are model citizens. They work but not hard labor and everything is given to them. When they are released, they have to take care of themselves and many don’t like to do that. There is no one right answer.
ChampionNymph37634
Here's the deal - impoverished areas are the elementary schools for criminals. Next comes juvenile detention facilities - the secondary schools for criminals. Finally, there's prison. The higher education & grad school for criminals. The answer is stop the vicious cycle where it starts - impoverished areas. Get rid of those & lower crime rates will follow. How do we do that? I don't know. I just know that's what it will take.
Oliver Twist
Uninitialized, Not that, the other country's don't have issues with killing offenders. It's a lot more cost effective than jail, plus it cuts down on recidivism.
Player #5394265
1 thing Americans don't seem to get is we jail thieves. Iraq, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,Saudi Arabia, Turkey, just to name a few have a very swift judicial system when it comes to thieves.They chop off the offending hand.
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Imagine having 1/3 of the population of India/China but having more people in prison. USA is a weird country
KILLean17
And people are are fighting and killing every day to get in!
Player #27643412
not a thing to boast about, it's really awful when you see how this damages the fabric of society
Remoaner
Another sad record for the USA. Another symptom of a broken society and failed culture.
Tacobelle
Richard27638, it's not cheap to support a prisoner. They should contribute to their upkeep
Mars V
That was an easy one!
Ace
Most of the inmates in USA are black, Hispanic or other non white groups. Greedy drug fuelled gang members who have no moral code. Like most of America life is cheap and they don’t care about anything or anyone. Just look at their leaders. Highest pollution rates behind china. If you’re American you should be ashamed
Truefire
Most people that we have in jails are enforce drug charges plus other crimes. We have a high population, because most other countries, execute drug dealers and users.
Nix
in south africa we put all our criminals in parliament
hazelnutlatte
USA has the habit of keeping serial killers, pedophiles, rapists jailed for life instead of execution.
Donna
Tacobelle, Agreed! prisoners live better in jail.than most have ever lived
Donna
Oliver Twist, agreed!
Player #25874027
O,
The Russians and Chinese probably have many more in prison but call them re-education centres
Tacobelle
KILLean17, there are areas where people commit crimes so they have a warm bed for the winter.
Maestro1313
Sad commentary on our system.
Player #27643412
Frances60, this is called institutionalisation, so if you'd only been a prisoner just a few years, of things being handed to you, it's unlikely you wouldn't cope with having to suddenly compete in the job market, to be sure an uneven playing field, especially if you'd just come out of jail..
Akil
So much for the land of the free 😏
Goodbye Moonmen
Player #5394265, America also jail a lot of minorities and people in poverty
xaq
check stats???
Player #18996322
Player #14993519. , so true :(
Rolando Mota Sinsema
As a ex offender in both federal and state prisons, I have my own opinions. Most of the folks here who talk about "kill em all" neither care about saving an economy nor the betterment of society. They are merely miscreants themselves who have yet to be convicted. themselves
Player Quitos
Oliver Twist, It's not cheaper. The death penalty involves a mandatory appeals process which means cash to the defense team.
Karl
Knodel1966, so is this the black communities fault or the white man again?
therealellbee
RushMama2112, it ain't gonna go!
Uninitialized
Player #14993519. ,
Do you know that not all that are imprisoned have done the crime, many have been falsely convicted. So many have undiagnosed mental illness as well. The black, brown and poor man are endangered species.
Uninitialized
elizabeth bennett,
You sound so ignorant!!
Uninitialized
RushMama2112,
Yes your right, its just another form of SLAVERY this is the only way they can make it legal.
Player #15121014
Oliver Twist, The death penalty has failed as a overall deterrent. It only ensures that the inmate put to death will not be a threat 10to the public again. It is not cost efficient. A criminal typically us imprisoned for 10 to 15 yrs, with costly appeals.
Player #10184858
elizabeth bennett, dn