Go directly to jail

Here are some more statistics from the 2004 Edition of Pocket World in Figures, published by the Economist magazine.

Prisoners
Total prison population ...Total population
1. United States 2,021,223 .... 285,900,000
2. China 1,428,126 .... 1,285,000,000
3. Russia 919,330 .... 144,700,000
4. India 281,380 .... 1,025,000,000
5. Brazil 233,859 .... 172,600,000

Per 100,000 population
1. United States 707
2. Russia 638
3. Belarus 554
4. Kazakhstan 522
5. Turkmenistan 489

I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel safer!