@photoncollector The #USA has one of (traditionally the highest) #IncarcertationRate both absolute and espechally relative per capita with >650 per 100k population.

• At least by any verifyable metrics and guesstimates. Maybe #NorthKorea has a higher #incarceration rate but it's shocking that even by absolute numbers the #US beats the "P.R." #China and #India despite the former being a totalitarian dictatorship and the latter the most poplated nation on earth, outnumbering the US almost 4:1...

You can thank the #ForProfitPrison / #PrisonIndustry for that!:

• Where most nations (i.e. #Germany) will usually sentence non-violent offenders (i.e. drug possession) to fines and resocialization (i.e. rehab) the USA slaps mandatory minimums at them for no good reason.

@randahl no, it's the #ViolenceCulture!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390

#Switzerland has a way higher gun density yet there ain't nearly any shootings even when adjusted per capita.

#Serbia and all of fmr. "#Yugoslavia" is choking on firearms yet it doesn't come even close to U.S. numbers - nor does #Canada - when adjusted per capita.

Criminalizing #VictimlessCrimes will only result in selective enforcement (see #WarOnDrugs) and subseqiently only finance the #ForProfitPrison #industry.

#2A exists to prevent shit like #Trump or the #NSAfD from taking power!

@WorkingFamilies

Well now that there are fewer people being jailed for marijuana, those for profit prisons have to make their money somehow.

#ForProfitPrison #Homelessness #homeless #unhoused

The last two episodes are also very good. Episode 3 covers a bit of #sugar's history and connection to #slavery, including the past and current #ForProfitPrison system, which is literal slavery.

Episode 4 is a(nother) look* at how #FederalGovernment policies were created and are currently maintained specifically to benefit #whites and disadvantage #Blacks, this time in #farming.

#HungryForAnswers #HBOMax #DiscoveryPlus

*#The1619Project #Justice Episode 6