Guess Which 'Shithole' Has The World's Most-Overcrowded Prison System | Zero Hedge
Description: The U.S. prison system has attracted headlines for overcrowding with 18 states operating at over 100% capacity... but there is one nation whose prison system is over 4 times more over-crowded than America's...

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# Guess Which 'Shithole' Has The World's Most-Overcrowded Prison System

According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, the U.S. has a prison population of 2.2 million, 481 inmates per 100,000 of the population.

The U.S. prison system has attracted headlines for overcrowding with 18 states reporting they were operating at over 100 percent capacity at the end of 2014. According to the World Prison Brief, the U.S. has an an occupancy level of 103.9 percent and only comes 113th worldwide when it comes to overcrowding in prisons.
However, as Statista's Niall McCarthy details, somebody who gets arrested and jailed in Haiti will have to endure far tougher conditions.

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The Caribbean nation has the most overcrowded prisons of any country worldwide and its institutions are operating at 454 percent capacity. That has resulted in 80 to 100 men being crammed into a single cell at once, malnutrition and the spread of disease. Many of Haiti's inmates have not been convicted of a crime and the UN has condemned the situtation, saying inmates are subject to daily violations of their human rights.

The situation in the Philippines is similar and conditions in its prisons have deteriorated steadily since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs. That has seen the number of arrests skyrocket with thousands of people thrown into prison. That has seen occupancy rates stretched to 436 percent of capacity and Quezon City Jail is a good example. An ABC News report claims the facility was built to house 262 prisoners and it now hosts over 3,000.

El Salvador comes third for prison overcrowding with its institutions operating at 348.2 percent of their capacity.

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hedgeless_horseman Feb 2, 2018 10:12 PM Permalink

> According to Bureau of Justice Statistics...

What would we ever do without a Bureau of Justice Statistics?

Fuck these government parasites.

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stizazz hedgeless_horseman Feb 2, 2018 10:17 PM Permalink

What about Israhell? O right. They put children in cages like dogs, not prisons.

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wee-weed up stizazz Feb 2, 2018 10:18 PM Permalink

At the risk of setting off those Libs who are averse to reality...

There is a very good reason why US prisons are overflowing...

With certain "folks."

Those who Eric Holder & Obozo referred to as...

"Our people" and refused to prosecute.

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cheka wee-weed up Feb 2, 2018 10:22 PM Permalink

US needs more prisons. anyone paying attention is outraged at the light sentencing for negroes and illegals

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HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 cheka Feb 2, 2018 10:25 PM Permalink

Yes. Coloreds get away with murder. Literally.

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Zero Point HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 Feb 2, 2018 10:28 PM Permalink

Those other countries have obviously not learned how to turn a profit from prisoners, the way the US has.

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TBT or not TBT cheka Feb 2, 2018 10:33 PM Permalink

The lack of sentencing of thieving traitors may be the bigger issue for a little while.

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zorba THE GREEK wee-weed up Feb 2, 2018 10:23 PM Permalink

We are not high on that list because instead of building infastructure, we have been building prisons. It is big business in the USA.

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deev stizazz Feb 2, 2018 10:25 PM Permalink

And the Arabs just kill them, no prisoners right. Anyone who is left has a suicide vest strapped onto them and they are dropped off in down town Israel somewhere to cause even more deaths. Just to finish off, the Arabs will launch a few more missiles into Israel too.

So I guess what the Arabs call Palestine, is actually the worlds biggest shithole, and they take no prisoners, so need no jails.

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_SILENCER Feb 2, 2018 10:12 PM Permalink

They can't Voodoo their way out of there?

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Salzburg1756 Feb 2, 2018 10:13 PM Permalink

Send Comey on a Haiti vacation.

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Bigly Salzburg1756 Feb 2, 2018 10:20 PM Permalink

No, Cuba. We need him to inspect an installation there.

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sowhat1929 Feb 2, 2018 10:16 PM Permalink

Solution is simple. Execute inmates.

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punishmentnotrevenge Feb 2, 2018 10:18 PM Permalink

All those blonde haired, blue eyed devils! Oh... wait... Red haired, green eyed parasites...No.... Hummm what is the common denominator?...humm

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Cluster_Frak Feb 2, 2018 10:19 PM Permalink

A lot of dindus countries on top of the list. do i see a pattern?

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Solio Feb 2, 2018 10:21 PM Permalink

Sign up or become a member of some corporation and you are behind bars because you will never know what it is like to have command of your creative potential.

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10mm Feb 2, 2018 10:22 PM Permalink

Find Dindus in pic. Ya know, like Chicago, Philly,N.Y, LA.

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HRH of Aquitaine 2.0 Feb 2, 2018 10:23 PM Permalink

Benin? Never heard of it. Same for Comoros. Oh well.

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milking institute Feb 2, 2018 10:24 PM Permalink

My European Friends always tell me how terrible it is in the US with all these poor people in prison. i remind them that in Europe the criminals are free to roam the streets and rape their daughters,so yes absolutely,much more humane! awkward moment of silence follows....

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any_mouse Feb 2, 2018 10:26 PM Permalink

Interestingly, no European or Asian nations in that list. Filipinos don't count as Asian, more Latino Catholics.

USA prisons basically hold many African inmates and too many marijuana users and not enough corrupt politicians and financial fraudsters aka banksters.

The solution is a massive growth of prison systems or letting violent criminals loose.

Neither has an acceptable outcome.

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khnum Feb 2, 2018 10:31 PM Permalink

Actually the US prison system is very competitive with Haiti having a workforce the same

size roughly as New Zealand or Ireland prisoners get paid on average from a low of 14 cents

to a high of 63 cents the Haitian minimum wage is 24 cents.

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Mr_Potatohead Feb 2, 2018 10:31 PM Permalink

" The World's Most-Overcrowded Prison System" is not the one with bars and guards. It's the one that people from the US of A have so eagerly accepted from their paid-for elected officials over the past several decades.

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