This story was originally published by Cardinal News. Many of the state’s least populous counties, including Buchanan, Brunswick, Lee and Dickenson, have among the highest incarceration rates in the ...

More people are incarcerated in the United States than any other country, with 1,808,100 prisoners, and the fifth-highest incarceration rate at 541 per 1,000 people, just barely below Turkmenistan ...

Angola Prison, Louisiana, nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South." Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate of any state in the U.S. Angola Prison, Louisiana, nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South." ...

Among neighboring states, Wisconsin has the highest rate of incarceration: for every 100,000 residents, 344 are incarcerated. The second highest in the region, Michigan, has a rate of 321 ...

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy in the world, according to the nonprofit. When researchers put the incarceration rates of U.S. states in a global context ...

Shasta County in rural Northern California has one of the state’s highest incarceration rates. Ask Robert Bowman what’s going on, and he takes a long, deep sigh. “It’s a perfect storm of bad,” he said ...

The Prison Policy Initiative, a national advocacy group and nonprofit organization, ranked Arkansas third highest in the U.S. for incarceration rates amid major jail expansion projects in the state.

Shasta County in rural northern California has some of the state’s highest incarceration rates. Ask Robert Bowman what’s going on, and he takes a long, deep sigh. “It’s a perfect storm of ...

While El Salvador has an incarceration rate higher than any U.S. state, nine states have the next-highest incarceration rates in the world, followed by Cuba. Kentucky ranks seventh on the global ...

LONGVIEW — Cowlitz County had the second-highest rate of residents in state prisons in Washington, according to an August report based on census data. Menu Subscribe Login My Account ...

According to the organization, Arkansas has an incarceration rate of 912 per 100,000 people, which is the highest rate in the United States behind Louisiana and Mississippi. Meanwhile, Oklahoma is ...