The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 11 months agoPrison population by country (per 100,000 people)lemmy.worldimagemessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down19
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minus-squareNaiveBayesianlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-211 months agoAlmost 1% of US Americans are in prison? That sounds crazy high! Edit: More recent data suggest it’s around 531per 100,000 for the USA (https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All), so more like 0.5%
Almost 1% of US Americans are in prison? That sounds crazy high!
Edit: More recent data suggest it’s around 531per 100,000 for the USA (https://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison_population_rate?field_region_taxonomy_tid=All), so more like 0.5%