Yahoo! News - U.S. Has World's Highest Incarceration Rates: "More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there, according to a new report by the Justice Department (news - web sites) released Sunday. That's 1 in 37 adults living in the United States, the highest incarceration level in the world. ... If current trends continue, it means that a black male in the United States would have about a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison during his lifetime. For a Hispanic male, it's 1 in 6; for a white male, 1 in 17. "
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