• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Just a reminder that 8% of US inmates is 8% of a quarter of all the inmates on the planet

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      10 months ago

      No doubt that the US has major issues with prison populations, but there seems to be this idea that most US prisons are privately owned, which isn’t true.