An Interesting Set of Statistics

If you look at the number of black people in prison per 100,000 it can tell you how a country treats other races.

One would think that South Africa in 1992 would have a high figure and that a democracy like the United States would have a figure that was much lower.

Not so!

In 1993, South Africa had a figure of 851, whereas the 2002 figure for the US was 7150.

In other words a black person in the US now, is eight times more likely to be incarcerated than in the racist South Africa.

Interesting I can't find an authenticated figure for the UK! But it looks like it is around 1,000! This is based on the fact that 15% of prisoners are Afro-Caribbean and that they make up about 2% of the total population.