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World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page) (lemmy.ml)

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From here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why isn't California on the list? I must have missed it, right? But I looked three times.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

but china ?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Half of Michigan wants to commit crimes against the other half, but they are fortunately separated by some really great lakes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No other country even makes the first page

If every state in America were only 1% worse than every other country, then again the first 50 entries would be the American states. This is barely saying more than "America has the highest incarceration rate," so it shouldn't be a surprise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Why don't I see California?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The entire US would have the average of all the states' incarceration rates.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What about the counties where you end up dead well before you can be put behind bars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Such as?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

China, Russia, Iran, etc.

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