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Nearly A Third Of All Female Prisoners Worldwide Are Incarcerated In The United States
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 20:06
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The US has more women in prison than China, India & Russia combined
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, nearly a third of all female prisoners worldwide are incarcerated in the United States of America. There are 201,200 women in US prisons, representing 8.8 percent of the total American prison population.
China comes a very distant second to the United States with 84,600 female prisoners in total or 5.1% of the overall Chinese prison population. Russia is in third position – 59,000 of its prisoners are women and this comes to 7.8 percent of the total …. http://www.forbes.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/09/nearly-third-of-all-female-prisoners.html
