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20% of the worlds prison population
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1970 was during the cultural revolution. In that year, the world population was 3.68 billion, and the population if China was just shy of 830 million - China had 22% of the world's population, so if they held (only) 20% of the world's prisoners, they'd have a lower than average incarceration rate.
The same is not true for the US today, we have less than 5% of the world's population today.
ITT: Liberals who assume that evil Chinese MUST be lying about their statistics but the above board whites of the USA are not.
Woah watch out. You might offend Red Scare propagandists
Your brain on for-profit prisons:
13th is a really good documentary. Indentured Survitude
Wow China really dropped the ball on this one.
More creepy US prison statistics.
The top score would be Gaza tho with 100% of its population being prisoners of Israel.
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It's too hilarious it can't be intentional that the top country not America is El Salvador which is where you're questionably sending all your black and brown people.
Nothing more American than privatizing and off-shoring our concentration camps.
I went to business school in the US about a decade ago (stayed full time engineer and happy about it) and I can absolutely see business schools unironically studying the process of privatizing and offshoring prisons as it relates to other more ethical and humane enterprises.
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