A U.S. Justice Department report released on November 30 showed that a record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. The incarceration rate in the U.S. was 702 per 100,000, 6 times that in Canada (116) or Australia (112) and compares to England/Wales rate of 139.
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