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Tayttajakunnus t1_ivissbu wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Two 15 year olds are interviewed inside their max-security prison cell by MiddleUziVert

The Stalinist incarceration rates of America don't seem to correlate with low crime rates though. For example where I live the average lenght of life sentence is 14 years and the longest sentence ever is 25 years, but the murder rate is about 4 times lower.

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newjackcity0987 t1_ivjq12l wrote

Out of curiosity, do you have for-profit prisons are does the government manage the prisons?

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Tayttajakunnus t1_ivk0cmh wrote

No, there are no for-profit prisons.

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newjackcity0987 t1_ivk1q38 wrote

Could be another reason why prison doesnt reform people in the US. The prisons are incentivized to not reform them

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