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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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[โ€“] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While private prisons are abhorrent and unconscionable, they aren't even close to the root cause of our prison problem. Hint: it's systemic racism and our militarized police culture.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/private-prisons-in-the-united-states/

Louisiana, the #1 on the list supposedly had 0 private prison inmates in 2021. Blaming private prisons at this point almost feels like deflecting from the real issues.

[โ€“] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who ~~bribes~~ ~~funds~~ free speeches the politicians who wrote those laws?

Edit: I think I should be explicit. The owners of the private prisons do.