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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 104 points 3 months ago (28 children)
[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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."

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months 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.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The top score would be Gaza tho with 100% of its population being prisoners.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Statistics are Khammaaaaz!!!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Israel is trying to zero out that number as quickly as they can.

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago
[–] ScizorCipher@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

Woah watch out. You might offend Red Scare propagandists

[–] veganbtw@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 months ago

ITT: Liberals who assume that evil Chinese MUST be lying about their statistics but the above board whites of the USA are not.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

13th is a really good documentary. Indentured Survitude

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Your brain on for-profit prisons:

[–] bier@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago

Wow China really dropped the ball on this one.

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