As this pandemic spreads it tentacles across the globe, we should always think of the most vulnerable and do our utmost to protect them. Yet one section of the most vulnerable are being ignored, the prison population. It's not as if they were an extremely tiny section of our community, there are approximately 9 million individuals locked up in prison across the world. Half of that mass of individuals are held in three countries, with the "good ol' US of A" leading the pack. The prison rate in USA per head of population is 724 per 100,000, in Russia it is 581 per 100,000, in China, that leader of the evil empire it is 118 per 100,000. England and Wales, on their own sit about the midway mark of the world's incarceraters with 118 per 100,000. US is also among one of the highest of women prisoners per head of population at 8.7%.
Strange that the so called leader of the free world and defender of freedom should be the country that locks up more of its own population in prison cells than any other country on the planet.
Another very disturbing figure on prison populations, especially during this Coronavirus pandemic, is the fact the practically all the world's prison are over crowded, with Kenya being the worst offender with it prison population being 284.3% of its occupancy. Even that most capitalist developed country in the world is guilty of this sardine policy with its prison population being 107.6% of its occupancy. Prisons are not on the whole, places of the best conditions nor descent medical care and hygiene, add over crowding to this toxic mix, and you have the perfect conditions for spreading this pandemic. To ignore these facts is extreme criminal cruelty and gross criminal neglect.
A world with approximately 9 million individuals lock up in over crowded prison cells is not a free and democratic world, let's grasp this fact and do our utmost to bring down the prison system and the authoritarian regimes that foster these conditions.
Strange that the so called leader of the free world and defender of freedom should be the country that locks up more of its own population in prison cells than any other country on the planet.
Another very disturbing figure on prison populations, especially during this Coronavirus pandemic, is the fact the practically all the world's prison are over crowded, with Kenya being the worst offender with it prison population being 284.3% of its occupancy. Even that most capitalist developed country in the world is guilty of this sardine policy with its prison population being 107.6% of its occupancy. Prisons are not on the whole, places of the best conditions nor descent medical care and hygiene, add over crowding to this toxic mix, and you have the perfect conditions for spreading this pandemic. To ignore these facts is extreme criminal cruelty and gross criminal neglect.
A world with approximately 9 million individuals lock up in over crowded prison cells is not a free and democratic world, let's grasp this fact and do our utmost to bring down the prison system and the authoritarian regimes that foster these conditions.
| Country | Prison population | Population per 100,000 | Jail occupancy level % | Un-sentenced prisoners % | Women prisoners % |
| US | 2,193,798 | 737 | 107.6 | 21.2 | 8.9 |
| CHINA | 1,548,498 | 118 | N/A | N/A | 4.6 |
| RUSSIA | 874,161 | 615 | 79.5 | 16.9 | 6.8 |
| BRAZIL | 371,482 | 193 | 150.9 | 33.1 | 5.4 |
| INDIA | 332,112 | 30 | 139 | 70.1 | 3.7 |
| MEXICO | 214,450 | 196 | 133.9 | 43.2 | 5 |
| UKRAINE | 162,602 | 350 | 101.3 | 19.5 | 6.1 |
| SOUTH AFRICA | 158,501 | 334 | 138.6 | 27.5 | 2.1 |
| POLAND | 89,546 | 235 | 124.4 | 16.8 | 3 |
| ENG/WALES | 80,002 | 148 | 112.7 | 16.4 | 5.5 |
| JAPAN | 79,052 | 62 | 105.9 | 14.7 | 5.9 |
| KENYA | 47,036 | 130 | 284.3 | 45.6 | 42 |
| TURKEY | 65,458 | 91 | 77.4 | 47.7 | 3.3 |
| NIGERIA | 40,444 | 30 | 101.5 | 64.3 | 1.9 |
| AUSTRALIA | 25,790 | 125 | 105.9 | 21.6 | 7.1 |
| SCOTLAND | 6,872 | 134 | 107.5 | 21 | 4.4 |
| N IRELAND | 1,375 | 79 | 91.5 | 37.4 | 2.2 |
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