The tiger has nine subspecies. Three of these are already extinct. The historical range of tigers all across Asia is now significantly smaller. The surviving subspecies of the Pathera tigris trigris, which is popularly known by its common name, Bengal tiger can be found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.
With the exception of homicide, US crime rates are comparable to other European countries with much lower incarceration rates. High incarceration rates are the result of truth in sentencing, mandatory minimum and three strikes laws which have limited judicial discretion in sentencing and parole release. US & Canada, United States. The US has the highest incarceration rate not because it has higher crime rates, but because it imprisons more types of criminal offenders, including non-violent and drug offenders, and keeps them in prison longer [Getty Images].
Recent tough-on-crime policies are largely responsible for sending growing numbers of people to prison in the South and keeping them there longer. 5 Louisiana's incarceration rate is the highest in the nation (867 per 100,000 residents).he U.S. rate is 500 prisoners per 100,000 residents, or about 1.6 million prisoners in 2010, according to the latest available data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). 1. Men make up 90 percent of the prison and local jail population, and they have an imprisonment rate 14 times higher than the rate for women.