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- The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
- The United States leads the world in producing prisoners.
- Prisoners in the United States are incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.
- The United States has 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any other nation. Communist China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison.
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