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Asia’s prison populations – Thailand #10 in the world

Thailand has the third highest prison population in Asia. But with 461 prisoners for every 100,000 people, Thailand has the tenth highest incarceration rate in the world and the highest in Asia.

By Phuket Gazette & The Nation

 

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China has the largest prison population in Asia, more than four times as large as India. However, when it comes to prison population rates, Thailand has the highest incarceration rate in the region.

 

Around the world more than 10.35 million people are imprisoned either as pretrial detainees or having been convicted and sentenced, according to the report of UK-based Institute of Criminal Policy Research.

 

The USA has the highest prison population in the world with around 2.2 million incarcerated. China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison.

 

Full story: https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/asias-prison-populations-thailand-10-world

 
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-- © Copyright Phuket Gazette 2018-01-11
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