To give just a little more perspective, the nation with the second highest, in terms of reported numbers of prisoners, is China. We lock up more individual people than the largest country on earth by a factor of almost 8 when comparing the two nations total population to their prison population.
I guess US citizens are just the most criminal people on earth by a large factor… /s
It is not. Hard to pin it on them. You’ll have to define “complicit” here. You mean unable to override a majority vote? Or not introducing reform legislation because we may as well flap our arms and fly to the moon?
Party of “law and order” (yeah right). Party of three strikes. Party of minimum sentencing. Party of the Federalist Society.
For the “land of the free,” we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. Singapore is at 156 (per 100k), Israel is at 168, Russia is at 300, Brazil is at 389, and USA is all the way up at 531.
For anyone not aware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
How fucking insane is that?
Land of the free, home of the enslaved
Land of the fee, home of the slave.
I cannot wait to see the headlines when someone sings that at some major league sporting event
To give just a little more perspective, the nation with the second highest, in terms of reported numbers of prisoners, is China. We lock up more individual people than the largest country on earth by a factor of almost 8 when comparing the two nations total population to their prison population.
I guess US citizens are just the most criminal people on earth by a large factor… /s
Just to be clear, we all understand we’re talking about one of the two major political parties here right. That has caused this.
Hard to pin the blame singularly on one when the other is complicit in the same system.
It is not. Hard to pin it on them. You’ll have to define “complicit” here. You mean unable to override a majority vote? Or not introducing reform legislation because we may as well flap our arms and fly to the moon?
Party of “law and order” (yeah right). Party of three strikes. Party of minimum sentencing. Party of the Federalist Society.
Hard to pin it on them? No. Not at all.
Yep.
For the “land of the free,” we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. Singapore is at 156 (per 100k), Israel is at 168, Russia is at 300, Brazil is at 389, and USA is all the way up at 531.