The United States has 5% of the world’s population…
![A picture named prisonpop.jpg](http://drugwarrant.com/oldblog/images/2006/12/01/prisonpop.jpg)
… but 25% of the world’s prison population.
We lead the entire world in incarceration rates.
![A picture named incarceration-rates2.gif](http://drugwarrant.com/oldblog/images/2006/06/05/incarceration-rates2.gif)
We even lead the world in actual numbers of those imprisoned
So…, and I’m just asking here…, with all these people in jail, how did we manage to miss this one?