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20% of the worlds prison population (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 days ago (30 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

what "slavery is allowed if the enslaved person is a prisoner" does to you

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