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minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIs OP from El Salvador? Wikipedia is showing the top five are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, the US in that order. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rates_and_counts https://prisonstudies.org/
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThose are effectively outliers. The US makes up 4% of the world population and has 25% of the world’s prison population.
minus-squareJohnDClay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThen say the country with the latest prison population, not the highest incarceration rate, since the latter just isn’t true.
Is OP from El Salvador? Wikipedia is showing the top five are El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, the US in that order.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate#Incarceration_rates_and_counts https://prisonstudies.org/
Those are effectively outliers. The US makes up 4% of the world population and has 25% of the world’s prison population.
Then say the country with the latest prison population, not the highest incarceration rate, since the latter just isn’t true.