22% of the world in us prison would be over 1,804,000,000. that's almost TWO BILLION. the us pop is 360 million. anybody looking at this image ought to immediately see the absurdity of the numbers it alleges. truth is the usa has over 20% of its pop in jail & prison which = 5% of the world's pop.
Its claim is that 22% of the world’s PRISON population is in the US, not that 22% of the world is in prison.
thanks for the clarification. so again: over 11M are incarcerated throughout the world. the usa has 1.8M in its jails & prisons. that would mean usa has at most 16% of all the world's prisoners. if it was 22%, there's be 2,420,000. that's a difference of 620,000. over 1/3 more than this meme claims.
The percentage varies between 16% and 25%, depending on the source. However, the US population accounts for just 5% of the global population. That is 3 to 5 times the average.
2.3 million according to the last study I've seen.
i did not find that. everything i found was at least three years old and 1.8m was a most recent 2022 study. i'd like to know if you have a source. also, there's surely more with this ice thing but they're not citizens and it'll take a while before any stats are compiled since the admin is gonna lie.
I have a PDF on my HD from an ACLU report in 2022. Don't know the original provenance, but the report was mostly a "raise the alarm" type thing about the fact that around 150,000 people had been sitting in jail for two or more years just waiting for a trial date.
besides websites, i took my answer from a vera institute (vera.org) pdf which states in a chart on page 2 that 1,827,100 were incarcerated in 2022. i did not find an aclu pdf with the info you state. screenshot? vera-institute.files.svdcdn.com/production/d...
when i was in new orleans jail (short story is, beat up drug dealer 'cause he threatened me with a pistol), there were dudes in their jails which had been there for seven years. seven. but the ones i knew, they were horrible people. but maybe that's what happens after seven years in hell.
I believe the system deliberately breeds and nurtures the monsters it needs to justify the repression it needs to maintain the system.
indeed, man.
regardless, that's still a freaky f'n number. ✊😎
learn to read, please!!!
learn to read an entire thread before shooting off crap, o' happy one. i could have deleted it because i knew there'd be people like you with far more problems than i had with skimming a meme this one time.