Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

Cocobham t1_jee4eji wrote

It is shameful. We have a serious problem with fentanyl poisoning in this country and we are not treating the individuals trafficking it in like the terrorists they are. In any other country, they’d be tried and executed. But in this country we think “social programs” can fix the demand issue.

Ok, have your social programs. And eliminate the need for prisons by making it impossible for the offenders trafficking the poison to ever offend again.

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Future-Tomorrow t1_jedzx0n wrote

“Wrongful imprisonment” is a common term and depending on where your collective news about the US comes from it seems that due to advances in DNA testing and uncovering of methods and processes used in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, someone is being released every other month for a crime they did not commit.

I’m not clear on what the last line about drugs in your comment is supposed to mean as tampering with evidence or planting it are commonly responsible for wrongful imprisonment cases. Please Google Zach Webster, and he’s by far not the only one.

Police and FBI planting drugs on innocent people or in their homes is a thing.

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Freebandz1 t1_jedx51i wrote

Yes let’s trust the rest of the world to dutifully report their inmates. Also, when it’s shown the amount who are on probation the amount incarcerated is about a third of percent of the population.

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Swivel_Z t1_jedu6df wrote

So, basically there's more white people jailed in the south, where most jailed people seem to be; and there are more black people jailed up north, where there are overall less people jailed.

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