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by throwablePie 2242 days ago
> might as well live in North Korea

... or Taiwan or South Korea or Singapore

... this is not what a "free country" with the largest prison population on Earth would do

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I wasn't specifically talking about the US, but agree that there are way too many incarcerated there. It's got to be one of the worst countries to be black in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Prisoner_Demographics..... Not even Obama could break the trend :/