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0 pointsAngryData2mo ago0 comments

They are far more often than anyone wants to admit. That's how we got 25% of the world's prison population.

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AFAIK the actual cause for our high incarceration rate is that we have longer sentences. The conviction rate, for example, as compared to the UK is similar.

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