claim: "we lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. we're locking up more people than china and russia."
author: joe donald
evidence_1: apr 23, 2008 ... americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using ... the  united states has, for instance, 2.3 million criminals behind bars, more than any  other nation, ... even comes close is russia, with 627 prisoners for every 100,000  people. .... "we have a highly politicized criminal justice system.".
evidence_2: dec 16, 2014 ... we have more of our people in prison than russia, china, and north ... that there  are more people locked up in the united states than other countries holds up. ...  according to the bureau of justice statistics, to more than 2.4 million, ... put more  people behind bars than any of the united states' close allies, ...
evidence_3: "we lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. we're locking up more  people than china and russia." — politifact wisconsin on wednesday,  december ...
evidence_4: aug 10, 2012 ... what we do ... men make up 90 percent of the prison and local jail population,  and they ... 18-34) were at least six times more likely to be incarcerated than  young ... gap in high school completion has remained close to its current level of  11 ... the total incarcerated population in 2010 was about 2.3 million.
evidence_5: this is a list of countries by incarceration rate. contents. 1 incarceration rates; 2  notes. 2.1 europe; 2.2 australia; 2.3 china; 2.4 north korea; 2.5 united kingdom  ... see the individual wpb country pages for more info. ..... russia, 402, 582,889,  17.5 .... prisoners, more than 650,000 were held in detention centres in china.