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bijowo1676 • yesterday at 9:06 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

its kinda rich talking about Russian/Soviet crime in the 1990s, when in the US 1% of population is incarcerated (top-1 in the world), 19 mln have felony record, and 79 mln people or 1/3 of population have some sort of misdemeanor or past criminal record

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/directlyimpacted2025.htm...


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sheikhnbake • yesterday at 9:44 PM

This has more to do with institutionalized and modern day slave labor than inherent criminality. More like intentional criminalization and over-policing.