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8.4% of the American prison population is comparable to the total prison population for a european country. finnish are 53 folks per 100k, americans are 655 per 100k...

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US's prison system is a human rights catastrophe. China rightly gets lots of criticism for their prison system, and they only have 121 per 100k [0]. Really puts things in perspective. Or look at the total numbers: In china, 1.7 million people are in prison. In the US it is 2.1 million [1]. Yet China has 4.3 times the population of the US...

[0] https://prisonstudies.org/country/china [1] https://prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america

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