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Why isn't California on the list? I must have missed it, right? But I looked three times.
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Half of Michigan wants to commit crimes against the other half, but they are fortunately separated by some really great lakes.
Why don't I see California?
No other country even makes the first page
If every state in America were only 1% worse than every other country, then again the first 50 entries would be the American states. This is barely saying more than "America has the highest incarceration rate," so it shouldn't be a surprise.
I don’t get this graph. So all of US has a smaller incarceration rate than just Louisiana? What?
The entire US would have the average of all the states' incarceration rates.
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What about the counties where you end up dead well before you can be put behind bars.
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