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Sadly population

• bryanrasmussen 4y ago
  https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany
• aedocw 4y ago
  This is wildly inaccurate. The population of Germany is about 84m. The total prison population in Germany is 56557. [1] What are you talking about? [1]: https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y ago
    Not OP but I believe they're talking about the total prison population and not the total population. They're saying that roughly 19,000 people (roughly 1/3 of 56,557) are in prison in Germany due to the inability to pay a fine that was given to them for riding on a train or bus without a ticket.
• nicolas_t 4y ago
  I'd want to see a citation on that, only thing I could find so far is this quote "Peter Biesenbach, justice minister in Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia, said that over one-in-ten verdicts handed down in his state dealt with fare-dodgers." I can't imagine that 1 in ten verdicts for fare dodging would result in one third of the prison population being fare dodgers.