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

And what percentage of the incarcerated are black, relative to that state's black population?

[–] pyre 1 points 2 months ago

I mean I would be shocked if it was just a coincidence that the top states are the ones you'd immediately name off the top of your head if i asked you to name the most racist states you can think of.