The scale of this great country keeps popping up in the news.
When we arrived, the unemployment was 50,000--nationwide*.
This morning, they noted that 8509 persons are in prison and jails--nationwide.
The NZ prison rate is 1 per 562 persons.
Texas has 72,000 cells. USA national imprisonment rate is 1 per 133 persons.
The prison population is in the news here because they are warning that they might have to move from 1 person in a cell to double-bunking some prisoners.
>>Correction: There is already some double bunking. The government is warning that more might be needed.<<
*This was considered shocking at the time. Unemployment in July 2008 was about 2,000 persons. Since our arrival the unemployment reached 142,000; the world economy is hitting hard here.
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