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World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page) (lemmy.ml)

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From here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Its been a few years since I checked, but as of 2015 at least the US, which is 5% of the world's population, give or take a few, had over 25% of the world's prison population. Total. Fucking. Insanity

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