cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3934969
Showhttps://sci-hub.st/10.1017/s0007123420000216
In his first source he cited, there were under 30,000 prisoners overall as 'total number of prisoners per year', which could just indicate the TOTAL PRISON POPULATION OF GERMANY OVERALL, NOT THE INFLOW AND OUTFLOW here...
Yet his second source states 200,000-250,000 political prisoners overall (not per year), sourced by the Deustcher Bundestag, which is West Germany's parliament speaking....
Original thread: https://hexbear.net/post/2035681
losing my shit imagining 30k prisoners coming and going every calendar year. incredible rate of recidivism