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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€“] digdilem@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is a plague that affects every country in the world - so isn't a reason for America being so keen to jail people.

[โ€“] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nixon caused this and Reagan perfected it.