I was watching “Stephen Fry in America” last night and they mentioned the prison population of Alabama.

It seemed so high as to be unfeasible. So today I checked the figures against my own state.

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

Population 4.645 Million

Prison Population 4,223 people

ALABAMA, USA

Population 4.662 Million

Prison Population 28,316 people

It’s enough to make one want to study criminology.