5M in 1953: http://www.britannica.com/place/Gulag . Pop in 1951: 182M: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union …. That's a rate of over 2700.https://twitter.com/chmadar/status/696343464070549504 …
@JohnFPfaff Gulag estimates are (unsurprisingly) very politicized & controversial. What source do you use for state incarceration rates?
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BJS. You're not suggesting BJS is politicized like a soviet commissar, are you? BJS is universally respected....
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1. As a general rule, in US (but not Europe, and not in 4 or so states), “incarc rate” refers just to prisons, not pris/jails.
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2A. All but ~4 states have split systems: felons to prison, misdemeanor/pretrial to jail. But Europeans as a rule have unified systems. So….
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2B. … to compare across countries, or to compare US states to EU countries, need to look at pris/jail rate that is rarely used here. And…
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3A. Both prison, jail rates are based on one-day counts. For prison, not a bad estimate of people passing thru in a year. But for jails…!
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3B. On any day, ~1.5M in prison. About ~2.2M pass thru each year. For jails, any one day is ~700K, pass thru is ~10M. So WAY off.
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4. So prison incarc rate tells us roughly what we likely really want to know. Jail rate is way-deceptively low.
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