#prison population

[realgoogleclassroom]

I'm going to give you two facts today, class because they came up in a conversation I had earlier:

1. The United States of America, despite being about 4% of the world population, has about 20% of the world's prison population

2. By the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution: Slavery is fully legal, as long as it is a punishment for a crime.

Let's discuss this with the class, shall we?

[usauthoritarianism]

Okay

Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from F

This’nsan example.

[thoughtportal]

Prison population and democracy in the United States

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic-eric-holder-our-unfinished-march-nick-seabrook-one-person-one-vote-jacob-grumbach-laboratories-against-democracy

[intelligentchristianlady]

I find this disturbing. Please support prison reform, sentencing reform, parole reform, the Innocence Project, and any bail projects in your state.

Source: NYT

[morinover]

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[worldwide-blackfolk]

smdh

[indizombie]

Although Canada is often praised for its politeness and multiculturalism, especially in comparison to the US, it has its own legacy of violence and oppression of indigenous and black people to contend with - a legacy which continues to have ramifications today. While only 5% of the population is indigenous, indigenous people make up about a third of the prison population. Last November, the Globe and Mail published an analysis that showed that indigenous people made up a third of deaths in police custody. Last year, a government report into murdered and missing indigenous women found that Canada was complicit in "race-based genocide" against indigenous women. Many of the report's recommendations have yet to be implemented.

‘Canada indigenous chief battered during arrest’, BBC

[maroononthemoon]

United States of America: about 5% of the world's population, but 31% of world's public mass shootings and about 25% of the world's prison population

Right Wingers: Greatest Country On Earth 😊🇺🇸