evidence: States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021 Prison Policy Initiative, September, 2021"Every U.S. state, and the United States as a nation, is an outlier in the global context. No other country incarcerates as many people, including countries with similar rates of" [...] States of Women's Incarceration: The Global Context Prison Policy Initiative, November, 2015"When compared to jurisdictions across the globe, even the U.S. states with the lowest levels of incarceration are far out of line." [...] US Rates of Incarceration: A Global Perspective National Council on Crime and Delinquency, November, 2006"Some individual US states imprison up to six times as many people as do."