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minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoLikely posted from the country with the highest incarceration rate currently.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoIs OP from El Salvador? Wikipedia is showing the top five are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, the US in that order. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rates_and_counts https://prisonstudies.org/
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoThose are effectively outliers. The US makes up 4% of the world population and has 25% of the world’s prison population.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoThen say the country with the latest prison population, not the highest incarceration rate, since the latter just isn’t true.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·18 days agoThe former might not be true either. China has 1.7M listed, but if you include 1M to 3M in forced vocational education and training centers, the count would be higher than the 1.8M in the US. The rate would still be lower though. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-concentrationcamps/china-putting-minority-muslims-in-concentration-camps-us-says-idUSKCN1S925K/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200728165111/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang/
Likely posted from the country with the highest incarceration rate currently.
Is OP from El Salvador? Wikipedia is showing the top five are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, the US in that order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rates_and_counts https://prisonstudies.org/
Those are effectively outliers. The US makes up 4% of the world population and has 25% of the world’s prison population.
Then say the country with the latest prison population, not the highest incarceration rate, since the latter just isn’t true.
The former might not be true either. China has 1.7M listed, but if you include 1M to 3M in forced vocational education and training centers, the count would be higher than the 1.8M in the US. The rate would still be lower though.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-concentrationcamps/china-putting-minority-muslims-in-concentration-camps-us-says-idUSKCN1S925K/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200728165111/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-genocidal-sterilization-xinjiang/