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20% of the worlds prison population (lemmy.ml)
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[–] ScizorCipher@lemm.ee 30 points 6 days ago

Woah watch out. You might offend Red Scare propagandists

[–] veganbtw@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 days ago

ITT: Liberals who assume that evil Chinese MUST be lying about their statistics but the above board whites of the USA are not.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 days ago

More creepy US prison statistics.

https://www.thehivelaw.com/blog/how-many-innocent-people-have-been-executed-for-the-death-penalty-statistics/

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

13th is a really good documentary. Indentured Survitude

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Your brain on for-profit prisons:

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

1970 was during the cultural revolution. In that year, the world population was 3.68 billion, and the population if China was just shy of 830 million - China had 22% of the world's population, so if they held (only) 20% of the world's prisoners, they'd have a lower than average incarceration rate.

The same is not true for the US today, we have less than 5% of the world's population today.

[–] bier 11 points 6 days ago

Wow China really dropped the ball on this one.

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