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Re:Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court by pessimizer on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:57PM (#24805437)
If you're going to count every incarcerated person, why not count every person in the world? There aren't 2.3 million people in jail.

> Fyodor would call our jails health spas compared to what existed in Russia during his lifetime between 1821 and 1881.

I absolutely guarantee that Russia had an order of magnitude lower proportion of incarcerated people than the US. We have a higher percentage of people in prison than any other nation on earth, double our nearest competitor.

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Re:Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court by juniper_strong on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:53PM (#24806152)
Wikipedia has Russia at 346 people incarcerated per 100,000 and the US at 655. El Salvador is at 590.

So, highest in the world but not anywhere nearly double the second highest, and not an order of magnitude greater than Russia.

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