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Mexican incarceration rate one fifth that of Texas, but growing

Richard Grabman at The MexFiles has some interesting crime stats from the Mexican Health Secretary that he compared to Texas' data, but as I pointed out in the comments to his post, the Texas stats were a bit off. Let's update them, however, because Grabman is pursuing a very interesting and important train of thought based on data published in the July 15 issue of Milenio. He wrote:No wonder Texas wants to violate international court orders, and execute foreigners. With a total population of 23,507,783 (2006 estimate), the number of state prisoners is 71,812. There are also about 9,000 in the various Federal detention centers in the state (and no figures on the numbers in contract concentration camps for aliens). Mexico, with a population of 120,000,000 has a total of 217,457 prisoners in the 442 institutions, which include six federal facilities...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).