“This report shows that more than 10.35 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, …”
“There are more than 2.2 million prisoners in the United States of America, …”
From the report: US population=317.76m, world population=7,172m
above figures as of October 2015, figures on map below may be more recent
“There are more than 2.2 million prisoners in the United States of America, …”
From the report: US population=317.76m, world population=7,172m
above figures as of October 2015, figures on map below may be more recent
What can we decriminalize to start fixing it? Most drugs would be a start.
— Jocko (@JockoJonson) July 5, 2021
Also here's the per capita numbers. US way up there compared to most countries. 😵 pic.twitter.com/wenSOY95h2
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2022-12-18 Chris Hedges: Teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in Prison*