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Now I am wondering if miniority racial groups are overrepresented in prisons in the UK like they are in Freedomland.
Looking it up, and mind you this information is from Wiki.
'People from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) backgrounds constitute only 14% of the general population in England and Wales, but make up 25% of its prison population.'
'In 2019 Lammy expressed deep concern at the extremely high proportion of BAME males in young offender institutions (they made up 51% of this prisoner population), saying that "England and Wales are now hitting an American scale of disproportionality in our youth justice system".'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_population
Good work comrade.
I remember in the last general election Tories' platform was almost 95% about Brexit. The other 5% was lying about putting money in the NHS and truthfully asserting that they were going to put more cops on the streets to fight crime. I wouldn't be surprised if this problem exacerbates in the near future.