Re:ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is the latest escalation...
by dragonwriter on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:00PM
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> The US is the third-largest nation by population. It stands to reason its prison population should be in the top three.
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world (that's prisoner:population ratio.) And there's a big gap between the US and #2, and a bigger gap between #2 and #3.
> China executes many of its prisoners.
Not really, maybe around a tenth of a percent annually. It has no significant effect on the statistics (leaving out political prisoners from the count does, but even correcting for that China wouldn't be anywhere close to the US.)
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world (that's prisoner:population ratio.) And there's a big gap between the US and #2, and a bigger gap between #2 and #3.
> China executes many of its prisoners.
Not really, maybe around a tenth of a percent annually. It has no significant effect on the statistics (leaving out political prisoners from the count does, but even correcting for that China wouldn't be anywhere close to the US.)