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Many civilized societies hand prison penalties that are considered insane and counterproductive by sentencing experts.

US inmate composition analyses are great example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092753711... https://jlc.org/news/what-foster-care-prison-pipeline

Regretfully it is hard to sue the foster-child-care system as sharing guilt for the civil damages done to these children:

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As much as US is a good example, it's also a country with by far the worst incarceration rate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Interesting that Thailand is in 5th place on that list, 80% the US rate. And about 65% the murder rate (placing them pretty close together on the world scale):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Also interesting that including high estimates for China's "re-education" camps would still only move them up to about 30th place, for incarceration, somewhere around Russia/Turkey/Nigeria. Although that's one area being diluted by the whole.

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