den Otter wrote:
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> > From: Michael S. Lorrey <mike@lorrey.com>
>
> > If you exclude crimes which are lesser or are not offenses in other countries we'd
> have a far more comparative level of imprisonment. Additionally China has a higher
> fraction in prison, if you include 're-education camps' as prisons. I find it
> interesting that the three most powerful nations have the highest prison
> populations....
> >
> > On the other hand, since most crime here is commited by criminals on other
> criminals, I can't say that you could call all of our prisoners 'oppressed'.
>
> And what about the war on drugs, which in a rational world would
> duly be classified as a crime against humanity?
I agree with you here.
> Apart from that, your
> prison system (and in fact just about all the prison systems of the
> so-called "civilized" nations) are simply barbaric. Little better than
> concentration camps, really.