claim: "today in america, we have more people in jail than any other country on earth."
author: bernie sanders
evidence_1: oct 13, 2015 ... "today in america, we have more people in jail than any other country on earth,"  sanders said. "it seems to me that instead of building more ...
evidence_2: jul 7, 2015 ... yes, u.s. locks people up at a higher rate than any other country ... yet we have  almost 25 percent of the world's total prison population. the numbers today are  much higher than they were 30, 40 years ago despite the fact ... more than half  the 222 countries and territories in the world prison population list, ...
evidence_3: oct 1, 2015 ... today, the country locks up more people than any other on the planet. ... "we  account for twenty-five percent of the world's inmates." over the past few decades , the united states has built more jails and prisons than colleges; ...
evidence_4: while the united states has 707 incarcerated people per 100,000 citizens, for  example, ... "no other country in the world imprisons its citizens as we do in the  united ... "it's not that we have any more criminals than the rest of the world; we're  just ... today's inmates is also pervasive, with 64 percent of jail inmates, 54  percent of ...
evidence_5: in october 2013, the incarceration rate of the united states of america was the  highest in the world, at 716 per .... even though there are other countries that  commit more inmates to prison annually, the fact that the ... according to the  american civil liberties union, "even when women have minimal or no  involvement in the ...