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].
The 1980s were a time of tough on crime laws, which ushered in an era of mandatory sentencing and three strikes laws. At the start of the decade, approximately 13,000 women were in prison, representing 4 percent of inmates in state and federal prisons.Over the next 20 years, the rates of incarceration accelerated, with the rate of increase for women surpassing that of men in the same time period.By 2010, women represented 7 percent of the prison population. Most of the more than 200,000 women currently in prison are there for non-violent offenses.A quarter of women in prison are there because of drug related crimes, compared with only 17 percent of the male population.s with everything in America, race also matters. More than 60 percent of the prison population is African-American or Latino. In 2000, black women were incarcerated at a rate six times the rate of white women.