11 Countries with the Highest Rates of Incarceration in the World

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10. Russian Federation

Incarceration rate – 470

Russia has over 1.2 million prisoners in over 800 prisons. It is estimated that 1 out of every 4 adult men in Russia has been put in prison. Like many prisons in the world, they suffer from hunger, bad prison conditions and diseases. Interestingly, most of the prisoners in Russia aren’t really convicted criminals but homeless people.

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