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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (18266)	3/13/2008 6:26:44 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) of 25737

According to the commentary writer-----just as I thought one big urban legend exaggeration------ "The Pew Center may not be right that the United States has a higher incarceration rate than countries like China and Cuba, whose official figures should be viewed skeptically. Still, the U.S. undeniably imprisons a much larger share of its population than other democracies: about 750 per 100,000 people, more than twice the rates in Ukraine, Estonia and Latvia; more than fivefold the rates in Spain, Scotland and the Netherlands; and more than 10 times the rates in Denmark, Italy and Finland" The proportion of 750 per 100,000 comes out ot .0075----not even 1% of the population. mj

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