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20% of the worlds prison population (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 103 points 1 year ago (8 children)

World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Interesting how it's southern states at the top eh?

    Can't have anything to do with the fact that the US legally allows prisoner slavery right?

    Winder what the race ratio of the prison population is.

    This is the country routinely accusing other countries of having "prison camps."

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Interesting how it’s southern states at the top eh?

    Legit amazed California wasn't higher on the list. They've been doing mass-incarceration at an industrial scale since the 70s. But I guess the population is big enough that the per-capita statistics work out.

    States like Alabama, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have such small and anemic populations and dedicate so much of their domestic budget to incarceration that they're basically giant publicly subsidized slave plantations.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's too hilarious it can't be intentional that the top country not America is El Salvador which is where you're questionably sending all your black and brown people.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nothing more American than privatizing and off-shoring our concentration camps.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I went to business school in the US about a decade ago (stayed full time engineer and happy about it) and I can absolutely see business schools unironically studying the process of privatizing and offshoring prisons as it relates to other more ethical and humane enterprises.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Worthwhile note to people too lazy to click on the link is that this is the 2021 version. In June 2024 (which is linked at the top of the linked article) the numbers look a little different but not much better for the US.

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