speaking english gets you locked up...
A survey of prison populations in the developed world reveals that the per capita average of people locked up in prisons in the English speaking world is about three times higher than that of the non-English speaking world. Interestingly, the U.S. figure is more than nine times the average in the non-English speaking world. I wonder what it all means.
The countries surveyed: Japan, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States. The order of listing here is from lowest (Japan) to highest (United States).
(Figures taken from an article on page 11 of today's Sydney Morning Herald, promoting the book "How Australia Compares" by Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins, Cambridge University Press.)
The countries surveyed: Japan, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, United States. The order of listing here is from lowest (Japan) to highest (United States).
(Figures taken from an article on page 11 of today's Sydney Morning Herald, promoting the book "How Australia Compares" by Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins, Cambridge University Press.)
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