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Old 03-08-2013, 06:05 AM   #472
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post

Based on Wikipedia numbers, the incarceration rate in the US, which is the world's highest, is 4.6 times more than that of the UK. This seems to me a far better measure of whether a country is a police state ...
Well, America runs its prisons for profit and prison owners pay for adverts on TV lobbying for 3-strikes type legislation to increase their free staff quota.

America is also about 50 times bigger than the UK.
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