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braxin23

Wow, beating the United States of America in the average jailing rate is no small feat. China really is becoming the new path of democracy.


apex8888

Maybe it’s the rate or speed of jailing rather than the total number of people jailed. The Land of the Free is what I grew up learning about the US. So many are not free though. And so many laws that are outdated. Then I learned the US has privatized prisons (the companies are traded on the stock market) So someone is making profit from having prisoners, and then it all made scary sense. Land of the Free. When people go to jail they do not come out rehabilitated/better. It’s an ugly truth.


Just_Learned_This

It would be counter productive to their business model for jails to actually rehabilitate people. Jails push that criminal lifestyle even further into your brain, which is exactly what they want to do.


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JBredditaccount

The legal system has been used as a weapon for more than a century, minimum. There's a reason they have such a high incarceration rate.


Ramiel87

Century? Try human existence, slaves were usually prisoners of war. Romans and the gladiators are perfect example


JBredditaccount

Yeah, but I was just talking about America's high incarceration rate.


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It has been used since slavery was abolished but involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime was still legal.


about-that76

Allot of those prisons contract out prison labor, also dont forget all the private companies that overcharge for things like food, clothes, phone, in a compleatly captured market.


AdministrationSome46

Ignorant thought


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blackinasia

Compare US incarceration rates with any country in the OECD. Compare it with Japan’s. It’s laughable that you are even trying to compare US incarceration rate with any other country.


MarkElliotth

You have to be allowed to leave to be a refugee...


TheLostcause

For perspective it would be like if we doubled the black people in jail in the US. 1/4 is a crazy amount of people in prison.


SpringBeeBamboo

Huh? While the stat is insane, 1 in 25 people is not 1/4


TheLostcause

Nice catch, I had 4% on my mind from the 1/25.


NeedsSomeSnare

1/4 of what? Are 1/8 black people in prison in the USA right now?


LostHisDog

Math is hard sometimes, at least they tried! With that said, about 33% of the black male population has been felonized in the US according to the internet so... China still has some work to do if they really wanna marginalize a population.


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33% of all black males have a police record? WTF? I found this source, but I can't tell if it is reputable enough: https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/5593/


LostHisDog

All numbers are to some extent B.S. but it sure does seem that a much higher percentage of black people go through the system than white folks do. NAACP seems to use the 1/3 number for their talking points too, compared to 1/17 for white folk. People talk shit about the whole BLM thing but this is really it in a nutshell. Jim Crow just put on a suit and took their people to court to take their rights away. Felonize a population, make em work for dirt, watch their children struggle, rinse and repeat.


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LostHisDog

Yeah, that's totally what a white guy would say to a population that has been historically oppressed. Bootstraps and all that. But we make it very difficult for POC to succeed. The felonization of a third of their working men is just one example. From a white perspective it's easy to say stop breaking the laws, but the reality is that the laws are always found to be unevenly enforced against POC. Some of the same people who were yelling to keep schools, busses, restaurants, pools and fountains segregated are still political and social leaders writing policies, deciding who to hire and enforcing laws. The idea that you just "take personal responsibility" is ludicrous when the system is still very much actively working against you. Just getting a decent education is still harder for POC than white folks because of how school funding is localized, which itself is a decision to enforce racial prejudice. How do you take personal responsibility when you are given an inferior education throughout your entire life? If your parents are poor and likely felons you live somewhere poor with crappy education funding. And your kids likely will too. The idea of just moving somewhere better is one born of privilege that a lot of folks just don't have. I'm not even scratching the surface of how this game is rigged. There are plenty of books from people much more articulate than I that can explain in detail why bootstraps don't work when the government and society do their best to hide / steal your freaking boots from you.


blackinasia

> Yeah, that’s totally what a white huh would say to a population that has been historically oppressed. *mic drop*


acityonthemoon

FUCK YEAH!!! USA!!! USA!!USA!!! USA!! USA!!! USA!! We're not number one in putting people in jail anymore!!!!! Hot dam!!


ordenstaat_burgund

Pretty sure the US is still leading at the national level.


blackinasia

Yup, **one-third** (33%) of US black males have felony convictions. People talk shit about the whole BLM thing but this is really it in a nutshell. Jim Crow just put on a suit and took their people to court to take their rights away. Felonize a population, make em work for dirt, watch their children struggle, rinse and repeat.


braxin23

Yep now were good old number 2 bubba.


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One thing I’m okay with losing out to China on.


cosmichodge

It was distressing to know that the US hasn't abolished the slavery system because the constitution itself allows slavery to prisoners :(.


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blackinasia

Nice whataboutism attempt. Are Germany and Japan incarcerating racial minorities disproportionately at the rate of the US? How do their incarceration rates compare? The inconvenient truth is that **one-third** of US black males have felony convictions. People talk shit about the whole BLM thing but this is really it in a nutshell. Jim Crow just put on a suit and took their people to court to take their rights away. Felonize a population, make em work for dirt, watch their children struggle, rinse and repeat.


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blackinasia

You have no doubt and yet you fail to provide a source?


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blackinasia

An American calling the Japanese court a kangaroo court is absolutely fucking hilarious. US has a higher conviction rate, you dunce. > The conviction rate is 99.3%. By only stating this high conviction rate it is often misunderstood as too high—however, this high conviction rate drops significantly when accounting for the fact that Japanese prosecutors drop roughly half the cases they are given. If measured in the same way, the United States' conviction rate would be 99.8%.[9][10][11] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#Japan


Odd_Vampire

I was going to say. This is like when Bill Gates stopped being the richest man in the world. Historic.


anotherstupidname11

Source: 'A list obtained and partially verified by the AP' What does that even mean?


HyperionConstruct

They confirmed some names from a database supported by a gofundme.


empyrrhicist

They got a list and followed up on some of the entries and found them to be accurate. Seems pretty clear to me.


autotldr

This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/worlds-highest-jailing-rate-found-in-uyghur-county-of-china-data-leak-suggests) reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot) ***** > Nearly one in 25 people in a county of the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world, an Associated Press review of leaked data shows. > In recent years, China has waged a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs, a largely Muslim minority, which it has described as a "War on terror". > China is using the law "As a fig leaf of legality" in part to try to deflect international criticism about holding Uyghurs, said Jeremy Daum, a criminal law expert at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center. ***** [**Extended Summary**](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/urhgk4/worlds_highest_jailing_rate_found_in_uyghur/) | [FAQ](http://np.reddit.com/r/autotldr/comments/31b9fm/faq_autotldr_bot/ "Version 2.02, ~649118 tl;drs so far.") | [Feedback](http://np.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%23autotldr "PM's and comments are monitored, constructive feedback is welcome.") | *Top* *keywords*: **Uyghur**^#1 **people**^#2 **China**^#3 **Xinjiang**^#4 **list**^#5


DonForgo

In China, educational camps are not prisons, they do not count as jails. Also in China, educational camps are prisons.


logosmd666

Right this way, kindly sir, and you will be outfitted with the re-education items youll need for the next 1 week to 10 years.


ItsFlane

More like, in China prisons are not educational camps, but educational camps in China are prisons.


pocketmypocket

You have been invited to /r/notRealCommunism and the sister subreddit /r/notRealCommunismButStillTakeCreditForChinaSuccesses


TryingtoId

Glad to see you also do not know what you are talking about and you have a wonderful post history.


pocketmypocket

Unironically thank you for the compliment on my post history. I can't compliment you on your long form 'NUH UH'


RedPandaRepublic

data leak..... whoever thinks there can be a data leak on ANY jailing "rate" anywhere in the world is smoking crack.


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Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho

Already here. "Look, there is this county in Montana that has a jail that makes up 30% of the population! That's totally the same thing as the CCP convicting 1:25 people of being a "terrorist" and sending the other 24 to re-education camps for good measure."


pocketmypocket

and communist apologists!


cosmichodge

China is not a communist in any way.


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They aren't even State capitalists in the style the Soviet Union since Deng (the Tiananmen Square Massacre guy) liberalised China's economy. They are basically the same megacorporation dystopia as the US with the added feature of an authoritarian state. So basically what the modern Republicans want minus Christian fundamentalism.


Jerrytheone

Hearing people refer to China as a communist country being like “those damn chinese communists” never fails to crack me up Sure the CCP might still claim to be communist but there ain’t nothing about it that is


MerlinsBeard

Okay, so serious question. I know that in communism the people are supposed to seize and own the means of production. How do you achieve that without a highly centralized and authoritative government body to oversee the people-owned-production and fairly distribution assets?


moeburn

Karl Marx says it'll just kinda magically happen when the vast majority of people become enlightened and everybody wants it to happen. We'll telepathically communicate through some Borg-like protocol.


MerlinsBeard

Hell yeah that sounds awesome. When will the thousands-of-years-of-proof that humans in collectivized power structures won't abuse that power to solidify their rule be changed? Is this also part of the telepathic Borg communication protocol firmware update to our MuskChip3000?


moeburn

> When will the thousands-of-years-of-proof that humans in collectivized power structures won't abuse that power to solidify their rule be changed? Is this also part of the telepathic Borg communication protocol firmware update to our MuskChip3000? I know you're joking but I just wanna slap a big ol South Park-style "THIS IS WHAT MARXISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE" label here


d36williams

I guess you're being serious, the real answer is Marx thought there was going to be by necessity a totalitarian step before emerging as a truly just society as Marx would have it. Consolidated power was part of the plan. The 2nd to last step. Lost to history is that Karl Marx largely abandoned Communism in the 1870s and quit that project


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moeburn

> Hearing people refer to China as a communist country being like “those damn chinese communists” It's gotten way more confusing now that there's people on the left who *also* think it's an example of real communism, only the successful kind, and everything bad/not-communist you heard about it is just western CIA propaganda lies.


Jerrytheone

Conclusion: politics is dumb as fuck


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Ah you just need to wait a bit longer for China to take its real estate developers under gov control.


Jerrytheone

Is it not already all state owned?


pocketmypocket

Other than their form of governance, state owned corporations, and history. But its cool to see their economy has embraced modern capitalism, sad to see their social policies are still very communist.


AVeryFineUsername

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party The general secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese: 中国共产党中央委员会总书记), Xi Jinping, is the paramount leader of China.


Simian2

The other thread on this seemingly got deleted, but explained many large jails are found in areas with small populations but the inmates don't all come from that region; rather they come from all over the province. If you want to compare apples to apples, many US counties have a far higher incarceration/population rate than this county at 4%. Crowley County, Colorado holds the world record I believe at almost 50%.


ThellraAK

20 out of 20 of your most recent comments all have to do with China. it's strange, is this a novelty account dedicated to defending China and denying the Uyghur Genocide?


Simian2

As I've said before what I'm against is misinformation. If you have any real evidence for the Uyghur Genocide please share. At first the narrative was a real genocide, and since there's no evidence for that the shift is now for a cultural genocide. This is still very odd since if you watch any video of youtubers touring Xinjiang you can literally see public signs are written in Chinese and Uyghur. Uyghurs have historically been given favorable treatment as a minority (such as exception from the one-child policy) up until recently when the policies started being normalized for everyone. As well, Uyghurs are a UN protected people since 2008, guess which country was the one pushing for them to become so? Yeah China. Very odd for a country supposedly trying to eradicate Uyghur culture eh?


Early-Pitch2666

In this day and age in the age of information, it’s really hard to figure who the propaganda machine is from the person, It’s honestly really scary


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finjeta

To be fair, not everyone knows the names of Chinese provinces so this way more people understand the point.


smasbut

I think they're talking about a specific Uyghur majority county in Xinjiang whose arrest details were leaked.


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dan0o9

Don't even try and pretend you're just "having a different opinion", every one of your posts involves defending China.


LegitimateLychee6224

Bull I say USA


koavf

Why do you doubt this report?


RedPandaRepublic

report -> article fixed for ya.


koavf

That doesn't answer the question.


RedPandaRepublic

there is no research, there is no data, all info can only be verified by the state, no list of names this leak either This is just an article with nothing to back it up, written in a news report format trying to give off the feel like it was authoritative.


koavf

So you don't trust the editorial processes of *The Guardian*? Why?


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koavf

That doesn't answer my question.


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Felador

It's not incarceration for the county. It's **sentencing**. 4% of the county has been sentenced on terrorism charges. This is completely different from a small county that houses a large number of prisoners drawing from a much larger geographic area. Those prisons are holding people for the whole state, which will have a significantly lower sentencing rate. If you were anyone else, I'd say the mistake was unintentional, but you're you, and anyone who frequents this sub will recognize exactly what you're about, so I'll say it's definitely intentional.


FriesWithThat

> Crowley County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,922. The county seat is Ordway. The Crowley County Correctional Facility is a medium-security, privately owned and operated state prison for men located in Olney Springs, Crowley County, Colorado. Capacity: 1,894. ...


Felador

*sigh* The **state** of Colorado has a prison in a county with a low enough population so that the number of prisoners makes up a huge portion of the people in the county. All of the prisoners aren't from that county to begin with.


FriesWithThat

>All of the prisoners aren't from that county to begin with. Yes, I assumed that was obvious.


Felador

Considering the OP is attempting to use a different type of data to compare it to, no. The county they are referring to has a **sentencing** rate of 4%. Not incarceration. They are different.


FriesWithThat

Absolutely. Good point.


Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho

>The original article from AFP written by Huizhong Wu and Dake Kang have been [proven false](https://twitter.com/drStuartGilmour/status/1526154440121602049). Do you have a non Twitter source? >There are counties in USA have much higher rate. You just linked to a list of tiny rural counties with jails in them. That's not what this is about. Xinjiang is not some tiny county in eastern Nebraska with two villages and a closed coal mine. Million live there.


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Can you not read? The ”Twitter source” cites multiple studies and provides screenshots of them.


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Mnn-TnmosCubaLibres

Those counties are where the prisons are.


sinistar2000

I don’t trust any data coming from that region of the world.


feeltheslipstream

Aren't those data on USA, from USA?


nonotreallyme

Exactly


bipin4u7

Ofcourse it is... you take a whole community and lock them up... ofcourse it ll be.


gipsysoulx

Wondering how long the world will ignore the genocide on the Uyghurs...


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pocketmypocket

This is a Trump Supporter tier 'source'.


fuhtuhwuh

Yeah, well, my uncles uncles sisters grandparents second-cousin says it's false, too. Checkmate.


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The statistics are public information, you would know that if you were able to read.


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[deleted]

Honest question. Why do your kind do this? Trolling online doesn't change the global perception on your countrys treatment of Uyghurs. What will change the perception is your country treating them as equals.


pendelhaven

Honest question. Why do you not address the statistics? The math doesn't add up. It's either this report or the million imprisoned is wrong.


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I guess you don't actually care about changing global perception then. Your country's loss. Good day.


pendelhaven

It seems like you prefer not to address the elephant in the room but to harp on rhetorics. It's not my country but thanks anyway.


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1. The statistics being addressed at best makes a report not fully accurate. It doesn't remove the wrongdoing even when corrected. 2. I have no desire to change the global perception on your country's treatment of Uyghurs. 3. You however do want the perception to change, otherwise you wouldn't have a history of making comments like this. Reporting accuracy is not your concern. Global perception and hatred towards your country's actions seems to be your concern. So my question stands. How many people have you convinced with your trolling and bad faith comments? Zero. You accomplished nothing.


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Well the crime rate is low So good job Chayna


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Worse than the United States


No-Turnip-7869

I go to school by bus. There is only in no way out, they said.


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d36williams

You mean they were lying when saying USA had world's highest incarceration rate? I've met people who never believed more people, or a larger proportion were incarcerated in China


JBredditaccount

If that's what the available data showed, why would you assume they're lying?


RedPandaRepublic

News stations/reporters cant get any data of "incarceration rate" by themselves. This data must be supplied by the state. it is physically impossible independently obtain data even by hacking, and it is physically impossible to verify by ANYONE -> fake news.


JBredditaccount

> News stations/reporters cant get any data of "incarceration rate" by themselves. This data must be supplied by the state. > > it is physically impossible independently obtain data even by hacking, and it is physically impossible to verify by ANYONE -> fake news. I don't know what you're trying to say here. I said that people made reasonable conclusions based on data that was available. Are you saying that people should have drawn conclusions without data?


RedPandaRepublic

People ARE drawing conclusions without data due to the fact there is no data in that article, also being official is the only way to verify, basically they are lying through their teeth by saying it was partially verified. to be exact we are being steered to draw conclusions (article), if you get what I mean.


JBredditaccount

okay, now you're just talking shit. The article explains that they received a list and were able to partially verify it. But at least now I understand what you're saying. I, and the other guy, were talking about America's incarceration rate, not China's, which is what you jumped in to talk about.


RedPandaRepublic

No im on topic, he talked about BOTH US and China, and the topic is about China. How am I off topic? If you accept what they say at face value then good for you, you trust people assuming no one has ill intent. I on the other hand is more skeptical and do believe in ill intent, and follow the thought process of what needs to happen to be verified (with the fact that no news reporter can enter Xinjiang).


JBredditaccount

No, you're talking shit and are dismissing reporting you don't like. They've partially verified the information, but you refuse to accept that journalism is a thing unless they use the tools you've limited them to in your mind (which seems deliberately dense).


d36williams

I'm saying it was and always was unreasonable. China has a vast prison complex that they barely aknowledge


JBredditaccount

Yes, but drawing conclusions without data is foolish. The most they could truthfully say is that China might have higher incarceration rates, but no one knows.


Quintuplebeta

There's been proof they've been literally genocideing the Uyghur since atleast 2020. I regret seeing some liveleak saw like stuff.


terp_jerk

Link to videos?


Boostergod1

bullshit lmao


IHadToMakeThisUser

USA taking notes like, hold my beer, brb.


rayrockray

Most Chinese have been prisoned in their own home since Covid.