Around 62% of the working population is ... Seychelles used to have the highest incarceration rate in the world, so it is good to see progress is being made. Most of the drop in its incarceration ...

El Salvador, long whipsawed by gang violence that made it one of the world’s most dangerous countries, turned things around by jailing huge swaths of its population.

The study, released Tuesday, suggests that Kentucky is among the nine U.S. states leading the world for its incarceration rate. The only country to beat out those nine states was El Salvador.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A study released by the Prison Policy Initiative says that Kentucky has a higher incarceration rate than any democratic country on earth. Mike Wessler with the Initiative ...

While Louisiana still has the highest incarceration rate in the world, in November its prison rate dropped by 5% in a single month when, due to a legislative change that retroactively increased ...

The Sentencing Project’s incarceration rate for Connecticut is displayed as 170 per 100,000 residents in 2022, but that only includes those that were sentenced — not those in pretrial — and ...

With over 5,500 people in local jails or state and federal prisons, Tennessee has the ninth-highest incarceration rate in the world based on population if each U.S. state were considered its own ...

While Virginia’s incarceration rate is higher than the national average, Inabinette said the state has one of the lowest recidivism rates at around 24%, second only to South Carolina’s 21% rate.

Mike Wessler with the Initiative says they pull these numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and The World Prison Brief, and they show that Kentucky has an incarceration rate of 889 per ...

Connecticut had a higher incarceration rate than countries such as Canada and France as of 2022, but had the ninth lowest rate among U.S. states, according to data released last month by the ...