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What is that comparison meant to show?

• femiagbabiaka 6y ago
  that atrocities are not the domain of any particular political or economic ideology or system, but rather a danger that we need to fight against actively everywhere, and now.
  • haberman 6y ago
    According to the BJS data sheet linked in grandparent, the leading causes of death in prison for 2016 are: - Cancer (1,128) - Heart Disease (1,025) - All Other Illnesses (525) - Liver Disease (260) Cancer and Heart Disease are also the leading causes of death for people not in prison. I don't think this is at all convincing evidence of an "atrocity."
    • femiagbabiaka 6y ago
      What's the threshold for when prison deaths cross over to atrocity? For me it is 1 preventable death. Healthcare in prisons is terrible: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-prison-was-built-to-hold-1500-inmates-it-had-over-2000-coronavirus-cases https://www.propublica.org/article/the-prison-was-built-to-h... Taken as categories, 44% of people in prison die as a result of illness, 31% as a result of suicide. (both sourced from BJS still) Both avoidable with the right funding, and yes, atrocities. If we're going to have a justice system that lives up to what it claims, a side effect of a prison sentence shouldn't be death.