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Russell Sage Foundation Data

Incarceration Rates in Twenty-One Advanced Industrialized Nations, Mid-2000s

"Table 1.1 shows that in the mid-2000s the United States incarcerated a higher fraction of its population than any other advanced industrialized country. In fact, the incarceration rate in the United States is over ten times the incarceration rate in Sweden, Norway, Slovenia, Finland, and Denmark."—p. 11, Invisible Men