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What's the alternative? Someone commits a felony, and then you...?

• lui8906 5y ago
  > What's the alternative? Someone commits a felony, and then you...? The US is the OECD country with the highest per capita % of incarcerated individuals. By orders of magnitude. So it seems other countries have found other approaches? > Source: Half of the OECD countries have less than 100 people in prison per 100 000 inhabitants. Thirteen have between 100 and 200. Two countries exceed this – Poland with 230 and the United States with more than 700. The US rate is the highest in the world followed by Russia with about 600 per 100 000 inhabitants. Except in the United States imprisonment rates for women are negligible. https://www.oecd.org/sdd/37964686.pdf https://www.oecd.org/sdd/37964686.pdf
  • nukemaster 5y ago
    Whatever California and NYC tried absolutely didn't work so you can't just say "something else."
    • lui8906 5y ago
      Who wrote something else? Not sure if you're referring to another comment or I'm being strawmanned? :)
  • Bancakes 5y ago
    They haven't. USA simply has rampant crime unheard of in the EU short of the jungles refugee centres are (non-ukrainian).
  • aranazo 5y ago
    Russia's incarceration rate seems to have fallen dramatically in the last decade, 356 per 100 000 in 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1022927/russia-annual-incarceration-rate/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1022927/russia-annual-in...
• erdos4d 5y ago
  Not locking them in cages. The US locks up people at 10X the rate of every peer nation, literally. By my logic, this implies 90% should be free right now, via one mechanism or another.
  • Bancakes 5y ago
    ...and then you do not lock them in cages. Repeat to annihilation.