>>more people are behind bars in the United States than in any other
country. China ranks second with 1.5 million prisoners, followed by
Russia with 870,000.
"The United States has 5 percent of the world's population and 25
percent of the world's incarcerated population.
"We now imprison more people for drug law violations than all of
western Europe, with a much larger population, incarcerates for all offenses."<<