Re:America's been through worse and survived (Score 1)

I suppose being incarcerated for a minor crime or inadequate legal aid is your idea of a minor inconvenience. Over 9 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, mostly as pre - trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted and sentenced. About half of these are in the United States (2.03m), Russia (0.86m) or China (1.51m plus pre-trial detainees and prisoners in administrative detention ). l The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, some 701 per 100,000 of the national population, followed by Russia (606), Belarus (554), Kazakhstan and the U.S. Vi rgin Islands (both 522), the Cayman Islands (501), Turkmenistan (489), Belize (459), B e rmuda (447), Suriname (437), Dominica (420) and Ukraine (415).