"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
...
On 9/24/2020 2:34 PM, Bod wrote:
On 24/09/2020 18:45, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...
The US likes jailing people.

As of June 2020, the United States had the highest number of
incarcerated individuals worldwide, with more than 2.12 million people
in prison.



Big money to be made by the US legal system. Lots of lawyers, judges
and cops. Not counting every thing else. Cost around $ 30,000 or more
each year just to keep someone locked up.

I think many other countries just execute the guilty ,or make the
punishment so bad that not too many break laws that would land them in
prison.


The UK doesn't execute anybody.

Prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per
100,000.

At 145 per 100,000, is the imprisonment rate of England and Wales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/h...l/nn2page1.stm

I'd like to see some explanation. There are many reasons, good and bad,
that raw numbers don't explain.

Do we have more laws?

Most laws dont have prison as a penalty
and there arent really more laws that do
have prison as a penalty except with drug
use in the usa.

There are some exceptions, the uk does jail
for what they stupidly call modern slavery
which is in fact the worst of the people
trafficking and very bad labor conditions
but they dont jail very many for that offence.

Do we jail for petty crimes that others do not?

Yep, particularly with drug use.

Do we have longer sentences?

Yep. and much longer with stuff like murder.

Are we better at prosecuting?

Nope, rather worse in fact with serious
crime like murder and gang banging.

Better at catching criminals?

Nope, see just above.

Are we just lousy at rehabbing?

Everyone is, there is in fact very little
of that, they mostly just get older and
dont do as much crime except for the
real hard core of criminals like the Crays.

The UK does in fact have some capacity
to not let people out of jail if they would
still be a danger to the community, but
that doesnt get used a lot.

The UK doesnt have any 3 strikes type law either.

The USA has a hell of a lot more gang banging etc too.