"South Africa has the world's seventh highest number of prisoners - outranking countries with up to nearly five times our population. The World Prison Brief places South Africa's total of 166 267 prisoners after the United States (2,3-million inmates), China (1,6-million), Russia (888 014), Brazil (419 551), India (358 368) and Mexico (217 436).
The populations of the top six countries on the list range from 104-million in Mexico to 1,3-billion people in China - with a combined total of 3-billion people. South Africa has just 47,8-million citizens.
Gideon Morris, director of the Cape Town-based Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons, said: "Our rate of imprisonment is much higher than any other country in Africa, as well as one of the highest in the world. "We use the quick fix: throw them into prison."
The latest figures show that it costs R69 000 annually to house a prisoner. Sixty-eight percent of all sentenced prisoners are serving a sentence of five or more years. And inmates serving life sentences rose from 793 in 1999 to a current figure of 7 574.
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