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Originally Posted by willravel
Billions of people + crimes being punished by imprisonment = hundreds of millions of prisoners. Do you know how much it costs to imprison hundreds of millions of people? More importantly, do you know that prison isn't designed to reform but to simply house?
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And to think that the U.S. is one of the worst prison states in the world. The prison population per 100,000 is rivaled only by Russia and Belarus. Sure, little is known about what is going on in places like North Korea, but still....
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