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Embarrassing, to put it in a nutshell.
And, the worst states are usually the former Confederate ones. Besides OK and LA, we have MS, AL, GA, Arkansas and Texas. Arizona, not exactly one of your more progressive states follows--odds are they and OK would have been slave states, if they were states back then.
We have more prisoners per capita than Cuba!
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018 | Prison Policy Initiative.
So, next time someone tells you about Freedom, give them the "yeah, but..." on that.
Oklahoma now has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S., unseating Louisiana from its long-held position as “the world’s prison capital.” By comparison, states like New York and Massachusetts appear progressive, but even these states lock people up at higher rates than nearly every other country on earth. Compared to the rest of the world, every U.S. state relies too heavily on prisons and jails to respond to crime.
And, the worst states are usually the former Confederate ones. Besides OK and LA, we have MS, AL, GA, Arkansas and Texas. Arizona, not exactly one of your more progressive states follows--odds are they and OK would have been slave states, if they were states back then.
We have more prisoners per capita than Cuba!
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2018 | Prison Policy Initiative.
So, next time someone tells you about Freedom, give them the "yeah, but..." on that.