According to the Legal Aid Society, on March 26 the COVID-19 infection rate at the local jails in New York City was more than nine times higher than the rate citywide and 87 times higher than the country at large! A perfect illustration of this is the population in...
The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the world’s population, it has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, half a million more than China, which has five times the population. There are about 2.3 million prisoners in the US and...
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. While the U.S. has less than five percent of the world’s population, it has about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners – half a million more than China, which has five times as many people as the U.S. There are...
