• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?

    • tonyn@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      The entire US would have the average of all the states’ incarceration rates.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      i have 4 boxes labeled A to D, and 10 rocks.

      i put 1 rock in A, 2 in B, 3 in C and 4 in D.

      A[⚪] B[⚪⚪] C[⚪⚪⚪] D[⚪⚪⚪⚪]

      i then paint 1 rock in B, 2 rocks in C and 1 rock in D.

      A[⚪] B[⚪🔴] C[⚪🔴🔴] D[⚪⚪⚪🔴]

      then i put the boxes in a bigger box called the united boxes.

      here’s the rate of painted rocks:

      1. C 66% (2/3)
      2. B 50% (1/2)
      3. United boxes 40% (4/10)
      4. D 25% (1/4)
      5. A 0% (0/1)
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    3 months ago

    Its been a few years since I checked, but as of 2015 at least the US, which is 5% of the world’s population, give or take a few, had over 25% of the world’s prison population. Total. Fucking. Insanity

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      3 months ago

      Which is a plague that affects every country in the world - so isn’t a reason for America being so keen to jail people.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Was it worth it, drug warriors? All the unnecessary deaths, at the hands of police and unregulated drugs of a unknown potency? Was it worth sacrificing all our civil liberties on the vain funeral pyre that is the United States of America?

      When humanity is victorious in the drug war and all drugs are legalized, will drug users criminalize sobriety?

      Will people high as fuck demand everyone to piss in a plastic cup to make sure they are high?

      Will drug users ruin sober people’s lives with felonies and time in prison with hardened criminals?

      Will drug users dissolve civil liberties and prop up a bipartisan police state that gives cops a license to kill?

      NO!

      Who would want to do that to someone? To a fellow human for doing what they want with their own bodies? Prohibitionists… that’s who. And we are not them

      Feel fortunate we want justice, not retribution.

      Nothing lasts forever drug warriors. Tick tock. We will be free one day, and you will wail and moan and your cries will fall on deaf ears.

      Now playing The War on Drugs - Red Eyes

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    3 months ago

    Half of Michigan wants to commit crimes against the other half, but they are fortunately separated by some really great lakes.

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    3 months ago

    Let’s see.

    1. South

    2. South

    3. South-adjacent

    4. South

    5. South

    6. South

    7. South

    8. Not south, but borders Mexico

    9. Northern

    10. Kinda south, kinda not, boarders Mexico

    11. South

    12. South Dakota, doesn’t count

    13. South

    14. Northern boarder

    15. North

    • corvus@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      The heat expands the brain and the raise of pressure against the skull induce criminal behavior. It’s scientifically proven.