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Originally Posted by nailer
Incarceration is an important tool of repression in totalitarian regimes. What's that say about our regime?
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You mean the fact that the US has more people behind bars, in terms of both raw numbers and as a percentage of the population, than
any other country in the world? You mean the fact that we've turned incarceration into a profit-making (profit-driven) private industry? You mean stuff like that?