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the_imp on May 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of Am...

> In other countries, if you're convicted of a crime you may have a body part cut off. You may be executed. Or you may simply "disappear". In any of these cases, you're not considered a prisoner.

But are those really the countries you would like the USA to be compared with?

MrZongle2 on May 20, 2015 [–]

Right or wrong, when it comes to incarceration and execution rates, we are compared with these other countries.

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