America is the best at something after all...

So I read this interesting article over at DN.se and Im gonna put the gist of it in English for the Americans...I doubt they have heard this.

Anyway, what the article talks about is the amount of prisoners that America has. This is numbers from 2006.
America has more people in prison than ANY other country in the world.

Comparison, number of prisoners per 100, 000 people.
USA 751
Canada 107
Iran 212
France 85
UK 148
China 119 (and they use it as a political tool...)

In the last 30 years the amount of prisoners has increased with 500% and its still going up.

Black people are jailed 6.2 times more often than white. Almost 8% of black males 30-34 are in jails.

So the obvious question is...why is it so different from other countries and has it helped at all?
my answer, without knowing much more about this, is NO!

Maybe time to rethink America?
just yesterday 8 people were shot killed shopping at a mall by a random guy, lets not even start with the firearms discussion...but seriously, its amazing this is not a more talked about issue in America.

Numbers and stats from HRW (Human Rights Watch).