If you are a citizen of the USA, I believe it is your moral duty to read this article. It is my moral duty to tell you how to avoid the paywall: https://archive.ph/imDhn

Part of the deal of democracy is you share responsibility for what your country/state/locality is and does.

Content warning: 32 short gutwrenching stories of death and near death in prison. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3ltdprqnjok2b

The United States has the fifth highest incarceration rate in the world (as of 2024), behind El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, and Turkmenistan.

Hungary, the country our current government aspires to be, has an incarceration rate 35% of ours. That is second highest in the EU (Poland just edges it out for first).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

List of countries by incarceration rate - Wikipedia