Largest prison population both in absolute size AND per capita. Also, random fact, their constitution allows prisoners to be forced into slave labour. Also, another random fact, their prisons are run for profit. None of these facts are related of course!
Next you’re going to tell me that these for-profit prisons lobby the government for harsher prison sentences for things like cannabis possession.
And house arrest is being used for mass incarceration of people being ACCUSED before conviction. The punishment can be more severe before conviction.
And many states let private companies charge accused people up to $40 a day for the ankle bracelets.
Did you also watch that Vice documentary?
Not to nitpick but not ALL prisons in the US are for-profit. They should be illegal though.
Fun fact - other countries that have for-profit prisons include Australia, Canada, France, the UK, Israel, South Korea, and New Zealand.
This won’t do much since most of these prisons operate under state jurisdiction, but in 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to stop the United States Department of Justice from renewing further contracts with private prisons.
Only about 8% of the US prison population is in for-profit prisons.
And how many of these other prisons offer up their prisoners as extremely cheap labor to businesses that ARE for profit?
Listen I live in the USA, but if thats your best pushback to all those facts - should tell you what a dire state we are in. And prisons that aren’t for profit still send out prisoners to for-profit industries to work, so it’s kind of a moot point.
That’s still about 96,344 people. Which is nearly double the total prison population of Spain.
THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON THEY’RE TRYING TO BUILD A PRISON FOR YOU AND ME
All research and successful drug policy SHOOOWS that treatment should be increased
Law enforcement decreased while abolishing. mandatory. minimum. sentences.
Classic song
Having to live in the US is already a punishment, being inmate is like being in a prison inside a prison.
Look the US has a ton of issues and there are people actively trying to make it worse, but there are reasons why people are or are trying to immigrate here in droves. It’s, on average, pretty alright and I don’t and have never felt like a prisoner inside a prison. If that’s how you feel here, I’m sorry.
But I get it AMERICA BAD and let’s continue the Leddit trend of taking every single opportunity to shit on everything at all times.
there are reasons why people are or are trying to immigrate here in droves
If you compare yourself to third-world countries you always come out looking good. “America Bad” can definitely get circlejerky though, no denying that
No, we have a lot of Germans, Canadians, French, Ukrainians, Australians, Brits, etc here. People from all over. I’m also an immigrant and a naturalized US citizen from a “first world” country. Now why would that be? Hmmm…
Anyway happy 4th, gonna go blow up my fingers and eat like a dozen hot dogs with the fellas. Don’t stay online too long, it’s not good for the melon.
Anyone I’ve met outside of America treated me like I lived in a third world country. Perhaps you live a middle class existence in an urban area? Go to a decaying town in a rural area and you will see how nearly half of America lives. A lot of middle class people are super sheltered. Did you buy the laptop you are on? I found mine in the trash outside the college where all the middle class kids go to. Do you use linux because you like free software? I use linux because my computer is literal trash and i need to remove spyware
I’ve given the US tons of shit and have even done so in this thread, but I’ll be the first to admit there’s plenty of reason to migrate. Much of the country is an unwalkable hellhole with mediocre salaries, but there are still at least a few cities that are 1) walkable or have good public transit, 2) have salaries that even western Europe can only dream of 3) aren’t all that bad with crime either.
It just sucks to be poor in the US. But if you’ve got a great career, it’s one of the few places where hard work CAN technically result in becoming a millionaire, as a software engineer or doctor for an example. The country has a working population for 167 million and somehow has over 20 million millionaires.
Also there’s so much variety of nature for one country, it’s nuts.
If H1Bs weren’t so hard to come by, I’d probably move and work for that sweet US software engineer salary for 5 years, then move back to my homeland that has much cheaper property lol
I’ve had a good, privileged life here in America. I got lucky as a white male in a middle class upbringing, but to complain about my life would be wrong. I am well educated with a solid career path, great benefits, and am doing well. Have always lived comfortably, but still work hard to get ahead. I can’t imagine there is much room for improvement anywhere else in the world for me.
Cool 👍
They made it a business. How many places in the world have private incarceration facilities?
Many countries have private prisons.
And in how many of those is it legal for prison corporations to buy laws?
Oh! Many countries do it, so it’s fine! Noted.
Not saying it’s fine, just that stupid questions deserve stupid answers.
Then go find go find a stupid question to give your stupid answers to.
For-profit prisons are a fucking scourge, and they’re way too common.
I already have though… I hope you have a better day, friend.
Ahh there it is
Someone asked a question and someone gave an answer. It isn’t a political commentary.
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And yet still most Americans think everyone is trying to sneak into their country! You couldn’t pay me to live there.
I’m surprised there is not more travel advisory warnings for travel to America 😮💨
Fuck man…
Listen, a lot of people don’t understand the key to the living well in the United States. It’s really very simple. Just be rich. You’ll have the best life ever.
If you’re too stupid to be rich (or you didn’t inherit a billion dollars from your parents), blame some poor brown dude for “stealing” a shitty job that you didn’t actually want anyways because it’s worse and pays less than your shitty job. It won’t make anything better at all but at least you’ll feel like you understand why everything sucks (even though you actually don’t) and you’ll have the benefit of living in poverty AND feeling smugly superior to someone else who also lives in poverty for stupid (racist) reasons.
And if you think about it, that sense of superiority is nearly as good (it definitely isn’t) as being rich.
Wow.
I’ve heard some prisons have minimum prisoner requirements, which is incredibly fucked up
How does that play out? Do they try to extend sentences? Can they try to influence intake?
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Is there a community that exclusively shits on the US on the threadiverse?
Lemmygrad as a whole enjoys it
Is that in between trips to the gulag or starving or?
I wonder how high these kinds of posts spiked during the migration
Reminder that the US have never abolished slavery for prisoners and have one of the largest slave population in the world.
There’s a few things missing from behind the mask
Then join them in ‘solidarity’.
And an huge colonial empire ( europe/japan/korea )
The US isn’t a colonial empire.
The US is one of the biggest colonial empires in history.
Then it should be easy to provide an example of a US colony.
Nato countries, easy.
You can’t seriously believe that, come on.
How can America have 25% of the world’s prison population of the entire country doesn’t make up even 10% of the world’s population?
Other countries don’t hold as many people in jail?
Damn u onto something
Well see, that’s kinda the point of the post.
We’re “the land of the free” but also the land of the most non-free people.
I left Reddit to escape bullshit like this
You came to the wrong fucking place then.
Reddit moment
I don’t think this is exclusively a reddit thing
And I left reddit to escape idiots like you. If I can handle being disappointed, so can you. Shut the fuck up.
Ahh there it is
Gee, I wonder why you expected people to react badly to you 🤔🤔🤔
Guess we’ll never know! You have yourself a good one. And if you’re American, don’t forget to wave your flag today! 😘
You came to the wrong fucking place then.
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Me too. The “America bad” thing got old on Reddit. I Hope it doesn’t take off here too.
If you don’t want to hear about America being bad, don’t go to the same places as people who live in reality.
I don’t deny the problems with this country. I vote to try and make this country better. Seeing the same posts about how horrible this country is gets old after a while. A majority of Reddit and this site would agree with the flaws of the US. The people who really need to hear this stuff aren’t on here.
Pointing out flaws in the country shouldn’t be seen as a personal attack or critique. Many of the victims of America are it’s citizens (e.g., the incarcerated).
Nationalism just twists the government into our personal identity to manipulate us. Making fun of the government/system is healthy.
This isn’t “Americans dumb” content, which attacks the actual citizens and understandably may weigh on someone.
I’m extremely happy to see a real conversation happening. This is actually worth reading, and not just another idiotic shouting match.
There’s a difference between “America has serious problems,let’s get to work fixing them” and “America is inherently evil and can’t be saved (and you’re an idiot at best, a right-wing plant at worst for thinking otherwise)”. The former fires people up to start making progess, the latter shuts people down or causes them to tune out of politics altogether.
And to be blunt, this particular meme feels like it’s falling more in the second category than the first, at least to me.
I take it as “America has good ideals that it should live up to.”
Might be pollyanna-ing… almost certainly am, but I’m trying to take this Independence Day to appreciate what we’ve got, what my ancestors came to this country for, and that the maintenance of it, and the realization of its ideals, is a lot of work we’ve got to do yet, and will always be with us.
The thing is, America (many Americans anyway) are continually screaming at everyone online about how America is the best country in the world and everywhere else is a shithole - despite very few measures supporting that.
If you insist on telling everyone you’re the best, when you have so many serious flaws, people are going to mock you for it.
You mean don’t go to places where children spew nonsense their loser parents tell them because they also made the choice to be degenerate fucking bums their entire lives?
Then when they’re middle age and still have nothing to show for it they attempt to influence the entire system to change despite not even being able to improve their own position in life?
Hi. As a not American, I can say Americans get made fun of a lot by not Americans. We like to share these jokes with each other online, as not Americans also use the internet.
Let’s hear where you’re from.
Canada. I’d appreciate any joke. Personal favourites include our Prime Minister’s blackface, or changing the words of the national anthem to be “our home on native land”, or suggesting that we have two official languages: English and Chinese.
All the best Canadians left and moved down to America for a reason.
Boom roasted.
That is such a poor attempt at a joke, it’s like an elderly frail person trying to have sex
Strange choice of simile.
Sorry it hurt your feelies, bud. Happy 4th of July, go eat a hotdog, maybe have a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up.
I thought it was the worst ones.
Because literally the first one that comes to mind is Justin Bieber.
See most places are bad but America should be better. It presents itself as the better. It does not always live up to that better and so those people who want us to be better keep reminding us we have a lot of work to do. I can tell you personally how horrible America can be but I don’t think you want to hear that from a Lakota.
I hate to break it to you but most of the fediverse skews even more left than Reddit did.
It will, because leftists love to cry and moan on the internet.
We have that percentage because we actually lock up our criminals, unlike Sweden or Germany.
Ah yes, Germany and Sweden. The last bastions for criminals all around the world. Oh wait, I’m 6-7 times as likely to be murdered in the US then those two places (Source).
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Let’s see your source. Show everyone even a shed of evidence supporting your claims.
Are you stupid?
You didn’t have to ask
I don’t agree with this person, but I also feel like I’m missing something in particular if you’re asking whether this person is stupid for having that take. Am I? Is there something about those county’s prison systems that is important here?
Sure. Definitely nothing to do with the fact that in your country, locking people up is SUPER profitable for prisons and a few other industries so certain institutions lobby to make sure more people keep getting locked up.
