America the land of the "free"?????????????
All information was collected with a simple Google search.I have always wondered how we are the land of the free when so
many people are arrested for stupid petty crimes. My search has
brought me some information about how countries are ranked by
Incarceration. Guess what? Were #1....WE ARE #1 IN INCARCERATION.
The page listed countries who incarcerated people per 100,000 of it's population.
1 United States 730/100,000
123 China 121/100'000
Actual population
1 China 1,347,350,000
3 United States 314,878,0.00
China has 4.27% times as many people as us but...
we imprison 6.03 times as many people...
Actual population incarcerated
1 China 1,630,293
3 United States 2,298,609
And finally percentage of population incarcerated
1 China .1209%
3 United States .7299%
To me this data states that we are not in the land of the free.
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The richer you are the freer you are. So it seems anyhow
As Free As The Wind Blows!!!!
even see this.
Countries with the highest death penalty rates...
1 China with 2000 executions in 2010
2 Iran with 252 executions in 2010
3 North Korea 60 people were executed in 2010
4 Yemen 57 people were executed in 2010
5 USA 47 people were executed in 2010
population of
1 China 1,347,350,000
3 USA 314,884,000
17 Iran 75,149,669
48 North Korea 24,554,000
49 Yemen 24,527,000
Percentage of total population executed
1 Iran 3.353%
2 North Korea 2.443%
3 Yemen 2.323%
4 USA 1.492%
5 China 1.484%
As you see Iran is number 1 in executions even though they only had 252 in 2010.
I know countries keep everything as secretive as possible
but look at what we do know.
......also same countries by incarceration rate
Population incarcerated
1 USA 730/100,000
29 Iran 333/100,000
123 China 121/100,000
197 Yemen 48/100,000
North Korea ...info not found
Percentage of total population incarcerated
1 USA .730%
2 Iran .333%
3 China .121%
4 Yemen .048%
5 North Korea No information found
With this info we can see that even though China has 4.27 times the population of the USA.
USA incarcerates 6 times as many people as China...and
death penalties are about the same.