this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
90 points (96.9% liked)
Slop.
775 readers
571 users here now
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No bigotry of any kind, including ironic bigotry.
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target federated instances' admins or moderators.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Doesn't Honduras have a higher incarceration rate? Last time I checked in Wikipedia it said Honduras and Cuba are higher by their rates. (obviously taking the Cuba one with a pinch of salt because the source is a Western NGO)
US used to be the highest, I believe it peaked in the early 2000s? As soon as they took the gas out of the "War on Drugs" machine it really plateau'd
Much like capital grows until its own contradictions push it outward to the imperial periphery, it seems the war on drugs met a critical point where it could only survive by expanding to LatAm and transforming into the avatars of neoliberalism like Bukele. But also the recent excursion against Venezuela was justified using "war on drugs" rhetoric.
The punitive justice programs of dead generation weigh on the brains of the living like nightmares.
Empire of Borders gives some insight into this, that's around the same time that border policing transformed into a series of South-facing borders trained up by US immigration enforcement and build by US security contractors.
The war on drugs is also a series of South-facing enforcement operations, operated in close connection with the US.
The last breakdown I saw, only El Salvador had an incarceration rate to rival the US. It even broke down the union and listed each state individually, so the top thirty incarcerates were all US states, then El Salvador, then the rest of the US states and only then did other countries start appearing on the list.
This one was posted on lemmy.ml a year ago: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html
Updated 2024 version: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
As of very recently it appears to be El Salvador by a large margin, but America literally exported prisoners there.
That would be news to me so idk