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For interests sake, the top global incarceration rates[0] are listed below. Note that influencing the Seychelles number is their small population (around 100,000) and the fact that they house a number of jailed Somali pirates.

Prisoners per 100,000 population: 1: Seychelles, 799 ; 2: United States, 698 ; 3: North Korea, 650 ; 4: St. Kitts and Nevis, 607 ; 5: Turkmenistan 583 ; 6: Virgin Islands (United States), 542 ; 7: Cuba, 510 ; 8: Rwanda, 492 ; 9: Guam (United States), 469 ; 10: El Salvador, 465

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...




Explain St. Kitts?




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