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I really like this infographic on this topic: Incarceration in Real Numbers.
Side note: is there a good abolitionist Lemmy community around somewhere?
$11b worth of goods and services sounds like a lot, except that there are at least 1 million people locked up. Even if they don’t have to pay the prisoners for their labour, the cost of keeping them locked up is much, much higher than the value of any labour they perform.
Yeah… according to the stats in this post, about 1.9 million people are behind bars.
11 billion a year between 1.9 million prisioners is about 6k per year per prisoner.
So that’s about $500 a month. Which is not as big of a number… and according to the article, the prisoners still get paid a fraction of it… it’s just that 80% is used “for room and board, court costs, restitution and other fees, including the construction and maintenance of prisons”.
Reminder that slavery is still legal in the US, if theworker is incarcerated.
They are not called workers, then.
They are called slaves, then.
Workers are part of the proletariat.
Slaves are part of the slave class which in the US is reflected in the carceral state as you have pointed out.
But call them slaves as that is what they are. We have taken their identity. And we have taken their rights. And we sell them into work. We do no favors calling prisoners anything but slaves because they have been erased institutionally.
Workers as is “people who work”. Not as in “the class of the proletariat”. 🙄
Not every state has the ability to force labor (generally per their state constitutions), if I remember a conversation I had years ago with my dad who was a judge. Just they tend to structure their prison sentencing and early release programs such that you’re trading years more of your life if you don’t “voluntarily” cooperate. So you know, tomato tomato.
It’s one of the bigger problems my state has, its reliance on its prisoner-slave workforce for vital services.
As the law requires US military gear to be made in the USA … guess who gets to make it as repetitive cheapest bidder ?
Seems like the USA is really more like Sparta than maybe it wants to admit.
lmao you people are the worst hypocrites ever , no matter what the west does you’ll just turn around and say WHATABOUT CHINA !!
What? I think it goes along OP’s point and is a nice reference to add.
Or what’s the problem? I mean China is doing good on the graph in comparison to USA. Very good.
Everyone - except you, US -, please give yourself a tap on the shoulder.
China is a dictatorship of the proletariat, incarceration rates need to be understood by the class in control of the state.
China is not a founding NATO country
Doesn’t stop them from incarcerating like one. Maybe they’ll earn an invite soon.
who wants to be part of the pathetic group of fascist losers? well, besides you, of course
What is your point? that China is more free than known fascist state Portugal and the UK?
Neat to see where China sits in this list, despite not being in Nato.
Kinda has an interesting perspective.
cope gringo
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China isn’t in NATO
Used to be that China was on par in that regard say… 10? 15 years ago? I remember seeing a comparison, it was more neck at neck, but I think they reduced it and the US massively increased it, so it’s high but not US high.
Similarly something about military spending; same US ballooning in the past few decades.
No, China never had large incarceration rate compared to the us.
I used to joke that reagen spent the ussr to death (I’ve learned a titch more about that era of history since then, as i really didn’t remember politics beyond SNL at that age) and now I’m feeling the same squeeze from China.
“in founding nato countries”
Removed by mod
Damn, this changes my emigration plans…
They’re trying to build a prison for you and me to live in
Russia solved this problem
Can’t imprison corpses I guess.
bone meal crunches under each bootstep
“Yep, we solved it.”
Their incarceration rate is still quite high at 197
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
Should be even less today. Today it’s about 210
Why have you sent me a 404 link with a video in Russian?
And 210 is higher than 179
It was 197 in 2024 and 400 in 2021
rbc.ru/society/04/03/2026/69a813889a794753b3684625
If you’re not Russian state government official
