Third world shithole
@animeirl I wonder why 
@animeirl Except US has one of the most richest poor people.
Poverty doesn't cause crime, but crime does cause poverty.
And if it was selfishness and narcissism, just letting them do it isn't going to help anything.
@animeirl @kallisti US imprisons more people per capita than any society in human history because it has more criminals per capita than any society in human history and has the resources to lock them up and in the past actively tried to do so.
The primary purpose of prisons is to keep criminals away from society and by that stop them from causing more crime. Everything else is a bonus.
@animeirl @kallisti
It began in the late 70s, but big policy changes like this take long time to go into effect. But before that you had attempt at rehabilitation, short sentencing and decreasing prison population while crime increasings.
Also I forgot to say that economic inequality since the 90s has only increased and also in 80s you had an economic boom.
Total: 639
White:
133 / (465 + 274 + 134 + 133 + 104 + 19 + 19) = 0.11
(100000 / (331893745 * 0.60)) * (2094000 * 0.11) = 115
115 isn't high. Also Indonesia is 93, idk what's up with that. Lower 1/3rd
(jail instead of jail+prison but whatever)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/816699/local-jail-inmates-in-the-united-states-by-race/
> US imprisons more people per capita than any society in human history because it has more criminals per capita than any society in human history
Not sure I buy this. If it is, it's because the US criminalizes too much dumb shit.
> The primary purpose of prisons is to keep criminals away from society and by that stop them from causing more crime. Everything else is a bonus.
It's utter failing to do this, since most people get out of prison or jail eventually and in fact it's arguably impossible to do this due to the cost since to actually accomplish this goal you would just have to lock up most criminals forever which is prohibitively expensive and not something we could ever afford.
If this is the goal of the current system (and for the record, I do not think it is, it is instead merely punitive) it's a completely retarded, unworkable goal that needs to be scrapped.