Using data from the article and population statistics for the USSR, one can see that in 1939 - at the height of Stalin's power - the prison population amounted to 2.4% of the adult population. By contrast, the prison population in the US today amounts to 2.9% of the adult population
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
U.S. Now Exceeds Stalin's Peak for Percentage of People Imprisoned
From Jake via the Angry Arab News Service:
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