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by jrflowers
1 hour ago
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The number of people in the prison/jail/probation/parole systems in the US has gone up ~16x since the 1970s https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/mass-incarceration... While the population of the US has gone up by ~1.6x during that same period. Seeing as convictions aren’t spread evenly across income brackets, a poor person’s chances of being in the carceral system outpacing population growth by a factor of ten doesn’t really jibe with the whole “there’s never been a better time to be poor” thing |
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