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I don't know that you can directly compare the two judicial systems. Especially when China executes roughly 61 times as many prisoners - often for petty crimes
by merpnderp 12y ago
I don't know that you can directly compare the two judicial systems. Especially when China executes roughly 61 times as many prisoners - often for petty crimes from repeat offenders.
That being said the US puts far too many people in jail, often for far too long of sentences.
- Zikes 12y agoI think that's sort of the idea behind the comparison. Even a country with a bar so low for punishment is far outpaced by our own judicial system.
- kpil 12y agoStill, I think there is something fundamentally flawed with a society where 40-50 % of all men have been arrested by the police by age 23. I tried to find some comparable statistics and I found that 5-10 % of all 15-20 year old males in Sweden have been -suspected- for a crime. I doubt that all of them were actually arrested.
- qiqing 12y agoAlso, prison contractors get more taxpayer dollars for lengthy sentences, whereas the state handles executions (that is, there's no profit in executions for the prison-industrial complex).