Orleans Parish highest in US in percentage of exonerations of wrongfully convicted

Depending on the year that figures are compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice, either Louisiana or Oklahoma has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.

Broken down further, the U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration and one of those two state routinely swap the title from year to year for the highest rate among the 50 states, thus the highest rate in the world. Higher than China, higher than Russia, higher any of the states in the Mid East. Highest in the world.

In 2018, for example, Oklahoma had an incarceration rate of 1,079 per 100,000 population, followed closely by Louisiana’s rate of 1,052 per 100,000. The NEXT FOUR were all from the South: Mississippi (1,039), Georgia (970), Alabama (946), and Arkansas (900).

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