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A comment on Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers. Parent comment

Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by CPLX on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @11:51AM (#9577124)
> Yes these things happen. They should not happen. But they happen in most counties --even homogenous countries.

What homogenous countries with a comparable level of economic wealth have situations that even remotely resemble our mass incarceration and drug war policies?

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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by lsniddy on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:12PM (#9577287)
China is a good example, though they incarcerate less and execute more
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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by analyst74 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @02:08PM (#9578050)
If you do drugs in China, how much you get punishment depends on your skin color and citizenship.

If you are Chinese, you are fucked, with the exception of powerful bureaucrat maybe; but if you are foreigner, you generally get off free, maybe a policeman will give you a stern speech about not breaking law again.

One thing I find funny though, is despite the war on drugs, average Americans, rich or poor, are still doing them, giving police more bodies to send to jail.

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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by CPLX on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:35PM (#9577466)
A quick glance at the stats suggests the U.S. incarceration rate is approximately 5x higher than China's. That's a big difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat...

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