Julie Gunnigle, a candidate for Maricopa County attorney, said, “If Arizona were a country, it’d be the eighth largest incarcerator in the world.” By one nonprofit’s data, this is true. But other agencies measure rates by different methods.
, a Carnegie Mellon professor who researches criminal justice policy.Prison Policy Initiative data makes it clear that"the U.S. is way ahead of the rest of the world and its incarceration rate," Blumstein said."Thus, it seems silly to compare Arizona to the rest of the world; it would be much more meaningful to compare Arizona to the rest of the states — it would still be No. 8 — and the U.S. would be out of range of the rest of the world.
When compared with founding NATO countries, Arizona’s incarceration rate per capita is No. 8 in the world. Compared with other stable democracies, such as European Union member states and Canada, Arizona is an outlier when it comes to incarceration rates per 100,000 population.2019 statistics of U.S. correctional populations, Arizona had 760 people in local prisons and jails per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages.
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