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Not sure the Americans are in any position to preach when it comes to their incarceration and capital punishment policies.
by paganel 2y ago
Not sure the Americans are in any position to preach when it comes to their incarceration and capital punishment policies.
- allemagne 2y agoIn comparison to the People's Republic of China?
- yardie 2y agoIn comparison to the country that shoots you in the face for being the wrong skin color?
- mensetmanusman 2y agoThose occur at about the statistics of airplane crashes. Huge disasters obviously, but it’s a function of our policy of everyone having a gun.
- pessimizer 2y agoYou can't really compare the two countries. The US has 4x (531/100k) the number of prisoners per capita that China (119/100k) has.
- dmix 2y agoAnd crime in almost every category is 3-18x higher (+ 83x more assaults than China) https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/China/United-States/Crime https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/China/Unit... The only category china ranks higher in is corruption and bribery and oddly the number of judges and prosecutors employed.
- Schiendelman 2y agoThe definition of assault and the reporting rate are completely different. You can’t compare those numbers just looking them up on the Internet.
- simmerup 2y agoAtleast they don’t let corrupt prison officers harvest their prisoners organs
- sauruk 2y agoIs this even a standard worth comparing ourselves to? That’s a bar so low that “at least we don’t …” doesn’t even make sense
- braincat31415 2y agoWhich makes it ok.
- janice1999 2y agoThere's literally a prison organ theft scandal ongoing in Alabama at the moment. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-deceased-alabama-inmates/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-decease...
- snapcaster 2y agoYeah they do sadly :(