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I did not mention Norway, or low crime countries, because the same applies for literally every country in the world. Out of large countries except USA the ones
by PeterisP 4y ago
I did not mention Norway, or low crime countries, because the same applies for literally every country in the world.
Out of large countries except USA the ones with the highest incarceration rate are Brazil, Turkey and Russia, which definitely do not have "crime rate (and anti-sociality) near zero" but have literally twice as few per capita incarcerated people than USA, and all the moderate-but-still-high-crime countries like Morocco or Mexico or Malaysia have three times smaller incarceration rates than USA.
Unless you can make a good argument why USA has a twice larger proportion of people that simply cannot function in society than the abovementioned countries, I'll repeat my assertion that most people in USA prisons are not there because of this reason.