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It's amusing how for many things you "cannot compare X and US in this way" for whatever reason. Seems that the US is beyond any comparison. Go to this page, so
by rimliu 7y ago
It's amusing how for many things you "cannot compare X and US in this way" for whatever reason. Seems that the US is beyond any comparison.
Go to this page, sort by the number of incarcerations per 100,000 population and enjoy the interesting picture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
- UserIsUnused 7y agoincarceration because war of drugs is fundamentally different from incarceration because I don't like my dear leader.
- wongarsu 7y ago"One of Richard Nixon's top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies" [1] It's not that different. 1: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...
- ulfw 7y agoIt goes even further. By having a large (Democrat-leaning) non-white population jailed up, it reduces potential Democrat voters - in some states for life even after incarceration. The only western democracy who does that. https://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000286 https://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=...
- vageli 7y agoThis has always disgusted me. Civic duty is a foundation of representative democracy and we strip that right from former felons while talking about reintegration with society with the other side of our mouth.
- rimliu 7y agoI was addressing the number of people in prisons specifically, not the reasons for them being there. Being a larger country and thus having more prisoners says nothing about the incarceration rate.