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World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country (No other country even makes the first page) (lemmy.ml)

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From here: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html

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[–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From OP's source.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, got it. I was talking about USSR, not modern Russia. Modern Russia is its own thing and its own brand of horror but not the same as OG Communist USSR which was more what I was trying to highlight.

[–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I doubt anything that came out of the USSR will be entirely accurate anyways.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah; that’s probably why there is such a lack of data. The period for which there are estimates vary by a factor of 20 between low and high estimates. 🙁