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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by _trampeltier on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:13PM (#34507541)
Sadly population
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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:20PM (#34507654)
https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany
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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by aedocw on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:43PM (#34508031)
This is wildly inaccurate.

The population of Germany is about 84m. The total prison population in Germany is 56557. [1]

What are you talking about?

[1]: https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:56PM (#34508258)
Not OP but I believe they're talking about the total prison population and not the total population. They're saying that roughly 19,000 people (roughly 1/3 of 56,557) are in prison in Germany due to the inability to pay a fine that was given to them for riding on a train or bus without a ticket.
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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by nicolas_t on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @03:34PM (#34509902)
I'd want to see a citation on that, only thing I could find so far is this quote "Peter Biesenbach, justice minister in Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia, said that over one-in-ten verdicts handed down in his state dealt with fare-dodgers."

I can't imagine that 1 in ten verdicts for fare dodging would result in one third of the prison population being fare dodgers.

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