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Comment by runako

15 hours ago

> on par with France

The US per-capita incarceration rate is ~5x that of France.

How is this related to what the person you’re replying to said?

  • They were responding to this:

    > The US mostly isn't interested in butchering it's own citizens, slavery is the approach we went with À la the U.S. prison system.

    To the extent that one is addressing slavery, the point is generally the number of the enslaved and not particularly their conditions (there is not a "good" way to own people).