Here Are All Of The Nations That Incarcerate More Of Their Population Than The U.S.

Here Are All Of The Nations That Incarcerate More Of Their Population Than The U.S.: Among OECD countries, the competition isn't even close -- Israel comes in second, at 223 per 100,000.

According to advance 2012 counts by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the U.S. prison population was 1,571,013 at yearend. That's actually a decline for the third consecutive year. Including local and city jail figures, however, that number easily tops two million, around 25 percent of the entire world's prisoners.

On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced sweeping plans designed to address the issue through drug-sentencing reform. Holder's blueprint included plans to divert low-level drug offenders to treatment and community service programs and implement an expanded prison program to allow for the release of some elderly, non-violent offenders.