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Well, that hasn't worked thus far... The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (p
by jeffwask 2y ago
Well, that hasn't worked thus far...
The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated, with more than 2 million prisoners nationwide (per data released in October 2021 by World Prison Brief). This number is equivalent to roughly 25% of the world's total prison population and leads to an incarceration rate of 629 people per 100,000—the highest rate in the world.
...maybe it's time to try a different approach like maybe slowing the transfer of wealth to plutocrats and back to the lower and middle classes.
- PittleyDunkin 2y ago> The United States leads the world in total number of people incarcerated El Salvador passed us a couple years ago, but yea your post is right on the nose. EDIT: only in per-capita.
- PKop 2y agoAnd their murder rate collapsed. Their policy was great.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoCrazy how most countries manage a lower crime rate without behaving like savages. Not us, though! The entire point seems to be the cruelty.
- PKop 2y agoPerhaps the component parts are different?
- orwin 2y agoI'm not sure most of the murder rate collapse had to do with incarceration. It's probably true for a small part, but from what I've heard the anti-corruption raids against the police and the end of gang wars are had more impact. Note that those are driven by the policies of the current government, I'm not saying that the Salvadoran government is bad _at all_, I'm saying that the 'imprison everything' part of the set of policies is probably the less effective one. Also Salvador uses (and probably reinforce) non-salvadoran cartels to help destroy their local gangs, and I'm not sure that this works if every country does the same.
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