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LOCKED UP In 2016, 2.3 million people were incarcerated in the United States, this represents a rate of 698 people per 100,000 and accounts for virtually a quarter of the worlds prison population. They appear to have imprisoned significantly more people than even Russia which recorded 616 and China which claimed 118 per 100,000 population in 2009. If we can believe the later figure then it is lower than the UK which locked up some 148 per 100,000 in England and Wales and 134 in Scotland during the same year. This puts E&W as the highest rate in western Europe, just ahead of Spain at 144, but significantly higher than Germany at 94 and France at 85. The lowest international figures were in India and Nigeria which both recorded imprisoning 30 people per 100,000. The lowest rates in Europe were interestingly Northern Ireland at 79 and perhaps more predicable Finland at 75 with the lowest being Norway at 66. The vast majority of these prisoners are male but again the USA has the highest percentage of female prisoners at 8.9% compared to Russia at 6.8% and England and Wales at 5.5%. In Europe however the highest percentage of women was found in the Netherlands with 8.7% and Spain at 8%. The lowest was again Norther Ireland whose prisons only held 2.2% females. Sources - the BBC, the International Centre for Prison Studies and the Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology.

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