International comparisons
How the U.S. stacks up globally
- U.S. incarceration rate compared to that of other founding NATO members (Created: 2021)
- Comparing the incarceration rates of U.S. states to other, similar, countries (Created: 2021)
- World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (Created: 2021)
- The United States incarcerates more of its population than any other nation - including nations that have similar or higher rates of crime (Created: 2021)
- Incarceration rates comparing US states and founding NATO countries [animation] (Created: 2021)
- U.S. police kill far more civilians annually than any other wealthy nation (Created: 2020)
- U.S. police kill civilians at a much higher rate than police in other wealthy countries (Created: 2020)
- 1 out of 5 prisoners in the world is incarcerated in the U.S. (Created: 2020)
- US less likely to use alternative sanctions to incarceration than other countries (Created: 2018)
- U.S. incarceration rate for women compared to that of other founding NATO members (Created: 2018)
- Comparing the women's incarceration rates of U.S. states to other, similar, countries (Created: 2018)
- World Women's Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (Created: 2018)
- An international incarceration comparison - Blacks in prison in the U.S. and South Africa (Created: 2005)
- Number of prisoners per country (Created: 2004)
- Percent of the world's prisoners held by each country (Created: 2004)
- Global Incarceration Rates (Created: 2004)
- Minimum wages in the United States, in Haiti and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (Created: 2003)
- U.S. general and prisoner population as a percentage of the world (Created: 2003)
Events
- June 7, 2024:
Research Director Wendy Sawyer will take part in a panel discussion during the Association of Health Care Journalists conference. The panel, Incarceration as a public health threat, will focus on the ways mass incarceration harms the health of not only incarcerated people but their communities as well.
Communication Director Mike Wessler will also be in attendance for journalists who want to connect.
If you’re a journalist who would like to meet with either, please send us a message.
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