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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] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.