Weird how the internet can tell me 1.6 million people died in gulags but there is no hazy estimate of how many folks have died in US prisons other than a report for 2001-2014 which hilariously misorders cause of death to downplay homicide and 'missing'.
I remember looking up the actual soviet numbers once and the number of people incarcerated in the gulag was significantly less on a per capita basis than the USA. I didn't do fatalities, but I imagine they would be at worst only slightly higher per capita than the usa.
Theres that famous meme where its a picture of Stalin that says "yeah Stalin was so bad that 20% of the population was imprisoned. Oh wait no thats America right now actually."
It's 2% actively, but 20%+ that's effected (spends time in prison or jail in their lives or is a direct relation of someone who will)
Right on, thanks for the correction. Was just trying to quote the meme from memory.
I think the statistic you might have seen is around 30% of Americans have a criminal record, i.e., been arrested and convicted of a crime.
This is the meme I was thinking of. I had the numbers close, but the overall idea incorrect:
https://img.ifunny.co/images/31a86fb326255d3beee5132b1daa36ac295f151b041fe5bb3d0d7b6ef0a46691_1.jpg
All told, the mortality rates of the gulags was slightly higher than the US prison system, but I'm pretty sure if you exclude the stats from 1941-1945 it's actually lower lmao.
I wonder what the mortality rate in American concentration camps is, they're really secretive about those
"gosh sorry, our contractor doesn't report those numbers!"
Operational parameters are classified as commerical-in-confidence and disclosure would unfairly disadvantage contractors against competing bids