As of 2007, more than 9.25 million people were imprisoned worldwide.
Almost half of the persons imprisoned are in the United States, China
and Russia. The United States has more persons in prison per capita than
any country in the world. Prisons The World Over offers a comprehensive
overview of prison demographics and conditions for each of the following
countries: United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt,
Iran, Nigeria, South Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. The
book includes reports on the number of prisoners, the rate per
population, the percent of female prisoners, the number of penal
institutions and their occupancy level, and the number of privately run
prisons Also reported are the offenses for which the inmates are
interred, the average length of incarceration, the availability of
parole, conditions in the prisons, the availability of educational and
work programs, provisions for children of female prisoners, the
availability and quality of medical care, the characteristics of the
prison staff, the visitation rights of prisoners, and the presence and
treatment of political prisoners.
