Tina Kankia, another member of Russia Behind Bars, said the protests had helped the cause of judicial reform, and in the coming years could energize a large following in Russia because of the country's high level of incarceration, close to that of the United States.
The Howard League for Penal Reform has also told the committee that England and Wales has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility, at 10 years old, and highest level of child incarceration in western Europe.
There are better uses of taxpayer dollars than to maintain high levels of incarceration simply to enrich the shareholders of for-profit prisons or to maintain prison jobs.
It would be exhilarating to see the likes of Will Smith, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey and others at that level of celebrity power marching against police stop and frisk policies and the high levels of incarceration of black youth in the prison industrial complex.
This suggests that like the traditional criminal justice system, ASBOs are very good at achieving what has never been this Government's stated objective - namely, higher levels of incarceration.
Dr. Adaora A. Adimora, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina medical school, found that high levels of incarceration even decrease monogamy between women and men who have never been in prison, because the men left behind are in high demand.
Europe would have all the good bits about the US – such as the economic dynamism, a large barrier-free market and a single currency – without any of the bad bits: the inequality, the high levels of incarceration, the poverty and the inadequate welfare safety net.
High crime neighborhoods also tend to see high levels of incarceration.
High crime neighborhoods tend to see high levels of arrest and, thus, high levels of incarceration; for instance, in New York City, there are several blocks where over a million dollars is spent annually to police and incarcerate individuals (Cadora, 2014).
Additionally, residents of communities with high levels of incarceration reported feeling oppressed and abandoned by the government (e.g. lack of attention related to addressing community problems) (Rose et al. 2003).
