Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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So John Legend's correct to say that there are more black men under correctional control than were enslaved in 1850, just over twice as many.
Yeah, and there are many more African Americans living in the United States today, ten times as many.
So when you take that into account, the picture does change.
Whereas today, about 10% of African American men are under correctional control.
Although 10% of black men under correctional control is still a sizeable number, looking at it another way, there are roughly six times more black men than white in a state or federal prison in America.
John Legend also made another claim in his Oscars speech.
He said that the US is the most incarcerated country in the world.
Is he right about that?
Well, there are 2.2 million prisoners in the US, which is more than in any other country.
But of course, it's got a big population, so you'd expect it to have a lot.
Well, yes, it's big, but it's no China.
Well, that's true.
China's population is four times bigger than the US's.
And yet China's second in the list, with about 1.7 million prisoners, half a million fewer...
But experts suspect that there are more prisoners in China than official figures show.
And the really important number to look at isn't total number of prisoners, but the prisoner rate.
And in the US, that number is very high.
It's not at the top of the table.
The Seychelles is, bizarrely, but that's a very small country, and experts say it's likely to be a blip.
So the US is second place in terms of prisoner rate, with 707 prisoners per 100,000 people.
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