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Re:United States incarceration rate by coldtea on Sunday June 09, 2013 @05:37PM (#5850745)
>But countries which have >99% white population have similar policies as the United States on drugs, so the race theory doesn't seem to be correct.

They have similar policies but not the same policies.

And even when they are the same, they execute them differently.

No country has even close to the American incarceration rate for mere drug use.

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Re:United States incarceration rate by youngerdryas on Sunday June 09, 2013 @07:55PM (#5851343)
These numbers are from 2008, and quite a few states have decriminalized pot, so I wouldn't get quite too excited. Also it is probably just coincidental that crime peaked just as incarceration rates went up and crime rates continued to decline as incarceration increased.
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