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Kasz216 on 04 August 2013
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ArnoldRimmer said:
Kasz216 said:
tres said:
 


and in america we have more prisoners than the entire world combine because its a for profit business

First off.  Recorded number of prisoners.  I'd guess you'd find a number of countries have us beat by them selves in actuality.  Eaisest example is China who's numbers don't count reducation slave camps, political prisoners, and many other types of people locked up for "administrative" reasons.

The Slave camps alone almost match the US prison population.

Do you have a source for that? A quick google search pointed me to an Amnesty International report, which mentioned a number of 260.000 people in such camps, but that is just about 1/10th the number of prisoners in the USA. The report also mentions political prisoners, saying that the absence of data makes it hard to say how many there are, but they estimate a few thousand.

The information I could find did not point to China actually having more prisoners than the USA (despite China having five times as many citizens and a badass human rights image).


http://laogai.org/system/files/lrf_laogai_factsheet.pdf