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by phist_mcgee 2104 days ago
One involves imprisonment with no chance of release with potential torture, the other is allowed free after their jail term. I don't understand your comparison?
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Exactly, in the US you are left at the mercy of cruel jailors who will torture you

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/wait-do-people-actual...

You'll be forced to work and live in prisons overrun by the pandemic

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/coronavirus-sweepi...

Even if you're released, you'll be jailed right away if the battery of your electronic monitor will ran out

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ankle-monitors-are-anoth...

Tt'll be though rebuilding your life, since employment opportunities are denied to ex-inmates, and thanks to probation fees, you'll be saddled with debts hard to pull away from.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2019/04/09/probation_incom...

Ultimately, if you fail to repay those fees, you'll be jailed again. The system works wonderfully... for the for-profit prisons

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/capitalizing-...

The US is a modern day dystopia, and I don't think that anyone seriously thinks that China's prison system is as bad as the US'

I do think it's worse. You certainly do not get a lawyer, and you sure as shit do not get the right to a fair trial in china.
You might want to educate yourself:

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/the-right-to-an-attorne...

It's far from perfect, but better than in the US

> The criminal representation rate now is generally said to be somewhere between 30-50%.

Last I checked, in the US, every person is entitled to representation. You want to argue that a country without a separate independent judiciary is capable of producing fairer outcomes for individuals without political collusion?