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The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

“The U.S. incarceration rate is the world’s highest and some nine to ten times that of many European countries. Almost 1 in 100 American…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

— Michelle Alexander

“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history of any…

— David Cay Johnston

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them…

— Rand Paul

Incarceration rates - especially black incarceration rates - have soared regardless of whether crime has been going up or down in any given community…

— Michelle Alexander

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum

“Although there is little difference in the overall crime rates between the United States and other high income countries, the homicide rate in the…

— Michael Waldman

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than…

— Gary Johnson

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

— Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

— Serj Tankian