4 pointsby marojejian5 hours ago2 comments
  • k3102 hours ago
    While poorly disguised concentration camps are increasing.

    Until a stop is put to them.

    • pfannkuchenan hour ago
      Isn’t this comparison actually quite offensive?

      It equates Jews who were perfectly allowed to be in Germany until the N’s gained power and unilaterally eliminated their status for no legitimate reason, with people who are knowingly breaking perfectly good and long standing democratically created laws.

      No Jew snuck into Germany, right? No Jew had the option of peaceably going back to their country of origin and refused, right?

      And before you say that you aren’t referring to the German camps, you know very well that this is where the power of the term “concentration camp” comes from, and that power is why you invoked it.

  • marojejian5 hours ago
    Forget the why, I wasn't aware the gap was closing...

    Someone with more, info feel free to refute this.

    I can't defeat the paywall, but these posts have some more detail:

    https://news.wisc.edu/incarceration-rates-are-declining-a-ne...

    https://scienmag.com/u-s-prison-population-declines-as-racia...

    • toomuchtodo4 hours ago
      With more prison space than prisoners, correctional facilities are shutting down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818747 - July 2026

      > The trend reflects an end to an important chapter of the story of mass incarceration, an era in which drug laws became more punitive, the war on crime mushroomed and the number of people sentenced to time behind bars surged. States poured billions of dollars into new prisons.

      > Now, the closures reflect a broader shift. Many states have revised sentencing laws and expanded education and job-training programs that help reduce the chances that people return to prison, JC Hendrickson, senior policy strategist for the Brennan Center’s Justice Program, told Straight Arrow.

      > “States have similarly seen prison populations drop,” he said.

      https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-in-prisons-...