{"id":9405,"date":"2021-09-17T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2021-09-17T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:07:43","slug":"global-report-fl-among-top-states-for-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/global-report-fl-among-top-states-for-mass-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Report – FL Among Top States For Mass Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global report: FL among top states for mass incarceration.<\/h1>\n
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Florida and a dozen other states imprison people at the highest rates in the world, without demonstrating that incarceration reduces crime, says the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research and policy advocacy organization.<\/div>\n
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Florida\u2019s rate of incarceration in prisons and jails was 795 people per 100,000, 13th\u00a0highest in the United States, according to the \u201cStates of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021<\/a>\u201d report released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It analyzes U.S. data from Dec. 31, 2019, shortly before the COVID pandemic took hold in the United States, and\u00a0international data<\/a>\u00a0gathered by\u00a0World Prison Brief,<\/a>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n

For ranking purposes, the analysis treats individual U.S. states as if they are countries in order to compare their incarceration rates with rates in various whole countries around the world.<\/p>\n

Compared with 170 countries around the world, the United States has the highest incarceration rate \u2014 644 per 100,000. That is followed by El Salvador (562), Turkmenistan (552), Rwanda (515), and Cuba (510).<\/p>\n

Within the United States, 24 states have individual incarceration rates higher than the U.S. figure of 644 per 100,000.<\/p>\n

Louisiana and Mississippi are the highest of all, both incarcerating more than 1,000 people per 100,000.<\/p>\n

Next come Oklahoma, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama and Kentucky, higher than 900; Arizona, Wyoming, Texas, Tennessee, and South Dakota, with more than 800; Florida at 795; nine other states higher than 700, and two states below 700.<\/p>\n

The states with the lowest incarceration rates in the U.S. were Massachusetts, at 275 per 100,000, Vermont, at 288, and Rhode Island, at 289.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, mass incarceration did not align with crime rates, says the analysis, co-authored by Prison Policy Initiative Senior Research Analyst Emily Widra, and Tianna Herring, research associate.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor\u00a0four decades, the U.S. has been engaged in a globally unprecedented experiment to make every part of its criminal justice system more expansive and more punitive. As a result, incarceration has become the nation\u2019s default response to crime, with, for example,\u00a070 percent\u00a0of convictions resulting in confinement \u2014 far more than other developed nations with comparable crime rates,\u201d the report concludes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur new analysis of incarceration rates and crime rates across the world reveals that the U.S.\u2019s high incarceration rates are\u00a0not\u00a0a rational response to high crime rate, but rather a politically expedient response to public fears and perceptions about crime and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Florida Department of Corrections, which accounts for the majority of Florida incarcerations, has not responded to a request for comment on the accuracy of the report and its findings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Global report: FL among top states for mass incarceration. Florida and a dozen other states imprison people at the highest rates in the world, without demonstrating that incarceration reduces crime, says the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research and policy advocacy organization. Florida\u2019s rate of incarceration in prisons and jails was 795 people per 100,000, Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[860,39,52,40,5,6,51,1],"tags":[1100,1099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/9408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}