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    1 year ago

    There’s an excessive perception that the US prison system is privately run. As terrible as the concept is, it is not as widespread as people think… however the US prison population is gigantic, so it still isn’t very small.

    “While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world’s population, it houses around 20 percent of the world’s prisoners.”