| | In the US there are 2,270 children who were sentenced to life in prison without parole.
http://hrw.org/reports/2005/us1005/
In the US 7.5 Million adults are on probation, parole, or are currently incarcerated. That's about 1 in every 30 adults. Over 4 Million of those are for victimless crime.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm
The Sentencing Project
The US has less than 5% of the world's population, and over 25% of its prison population. We have the higher incarceration rates than China, USSR, Nazi Germany, or any other nation in the world has ever had.
Ziedenberg and Schiraldi, May 2000.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/worldbrief/wpb_stats.php?area=all&category=wb_poprate
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