Uyghur Area in China Has Highest Prison Rate in the World

An area of western China may have the highest known imprisonment rate in the world. The area is called Konasheher county. It is in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Nearly 1 in 25 people in the county has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges.

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