edit: GUYS fuck stalin and fuck tankies, period. i understand that this community is more sensitive than most to pro-stalinist vibes, and i apologize for unintentionally twinging that nerve, but you need stop calling each other (and me) slurs
good heavens, happy new year, fuck incarceration and murder in all forms
(mods pls also do your job and help with the slurs thing)
edit2: big thank u 2 da mods for helping with the slurs thing u guys rock 😎 💕
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22% of the world’s prison population. They hold a fifth of all of the prisoners in the world.
(I don’t have a source for this, I’m just clarifying the meme.)
Don’t forget to factor in all the Uyghurs in camps in china and basically the entire population of North Korea to those numbers
Prison population. As in, 22% of all people imprisoned in the world are imprisoned in the US.
Given official numbers it’s about right. What constitutes ‘prison’ population in certain South East Asian country, would change the ratio considerably.