• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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

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      7 months ago

      Just to be clear, we all understand we’re talking about one of the two major political parties here right. That has caused this.

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          7 months ago

          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.