I’m not gonna lie this isn’t beautiful it’s more just sad
Now do private prisons to see which states will be the last to legalize marijuana.
I was going to ask how the south could afford to keep ~1% of its total population imprisoned and then I remembered how much money the rest of us have to send them every year
I guess American teachers aren’t wrong when they say several of you will be going to jail
1% of the total population being ACTIVELY in jail in a couple of states is bonkers
1% prison population is a failure no matter the circumstances
We’re #1 at something!!! wait…
Another embarrassing metric for the bible-belt.
Every stat map of America is exactly the same
Isn’t Delaware a tax evasion paradise?
How tf is IL lower than all our neighboring states???
Here we go again with the race statistics
Hey South Dakota, you doing alright?
I live in vermont and they just don’t arrest anyone, ever, for anything. There’s like 3 cops in Burlington lol
In Germany it’s 69… No, I did not forget a zero.
Since we all enjoy data that is not misleading, I have to ask….how have you factored in that many prisoners are not held in the state where they committed the crime?
0.5-1% of population in prision is crazy. Must be the highest rate in the world.
In most european countries is about 0.1%.
It’s always the states you most expect
Guess Utah is so low because deputies there do not take prisoners.
The southern states… not that surprising when you go down the rabbit hole of how did they replace slave labor after slavery ended? Well buddies, most owners refused to pay wages so they began cheaply rented out… you guessed it. PRISONERS
For comparison, some stats from a few other western countries:
USA 541
Australia 167
UK (England & Wales) 140
France 115
South Korea 103
Canada 90
Germany 68
Finland 52
Japan 33
This is an interesting map. Genuinely sorta thought provoking.
New Hampshire – Live Free of Die…?
As a point of comparison, the average incarceration rate in Canada per 100,000 people has hovered between 40 to 50 for the last several years: [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510015501](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510015501)
Well, now I understand better why conservatives think America is a country awash in violent crime.
It is, *for their states*.
And those states STILL have the highest homicide rates.
Someone needs to make a gif of all of these state heatmaps back to back to visually show they are all what you’d expect
Here’s a picture of a white guy in a Spirit Halloween prisoner costume for some reason.
Pretty cool visualization. Definitely needs to be noted that it’s not just a map of criminality though. It’s just as much a map of attitudes toward prosecution, and this format is not great for parsing the two out from eachother. Still cool to see and definitely useful in that overall discussion.
I’m sure folks know this but at a glance it can be easy to forget things like that
Good ol’ bible belt throwing people in jail* left and right
The more you look at maps of America, the more you realize how much wealthy blue states subsidize the South.
my country average is somewhere around 70, because a few years ago they decided to make riding without a ticket in public transportation a criminal offense with the 3.d time, and so the numbers sky-rocketed.
well, dont worry, america. as your inmates have the legal status of slaves, these inmates are important for the gdp you all seem to love more then life.
Seeing this map and bastion of government oppression that is the South, I am reminded of an exchange from the movie Easy Rider:
[George Hanson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): They’re not scared of you. They’re scared of what you represent to ’em.
[Billy](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.
[George Hanson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.
[Billy](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/?ref_=ttqu_qu): What the hell is wrong with freedom? That’s what it’s all about.
[George Hanson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Oh, yeah, that’s right. That’s what’s it’s all about, all right. But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different thangs. I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. **Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are.** Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.
![Prisoners per 100k people [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ros7a7ousdqf1-1920x1024.png)
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I’m not gonna lie this isn’t beautiful it’s more just sad
Now do private prisons to see which states will be the last to legalize marijuana.
I was going to ask how the south could afford to keep ~1% of its total population imprisoned and then I remembered how much money the rest of us have to send them every year
I guess American teachers aren’t wrong when they say several of you will be going to jail
1% of the total population being ACTIVELY in jail in a couple of states is bonkers
1% prison population is a failure no matter the circumstances
We’re #1 at something!!! wait…
Another embarrassing metric for the bible-belt.
Every stat map of America is exactly the same
Isn’t Delaware a tax evasion paradise?
How tf is IL lower than all our neighboring states???
Here we go again with the race statistics
Hey South Dakota, you doing alright?
I live in vermont and they just don’t arrest anyone, ever, for anything. There’s like 3 cops in Burlington lol
In Germany it’s 69… No, I did not forget a zero.
Since we all enjoy data that is not misleading, I have to ask….how have you factored in that many prisoners are not held in the state where they committed the crime?
0.5-1% of population in prision is crazy. Must be the highest rate in the world.
In most european countries is about 0.1%.
It’s always the states you most expect
Guess Utah is so low because deputies there do not take prisoners.
The southern states… not that surprising when you go down the rabbit hole of how did they replace slave labor after slavery ended? Well buddies, most owners refused to pay wages so they began cheaply rented out… you guessed it. PRISONERS
For comparison, some stats from a few other western countries:
USA 541
Australia 167
UK (England & Wales) 140
France 115
South Korea 103
Canada 90
Germany 68
Finland 52
Japan 33
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate)
This is an interesting map. Genuinely sorta thought provoking.
New Hampshire – Live Free of Die…?
As a point of comparison, the average incarceration rate in Canada per 100,000 people has hovered between 40 to 50 for the last several years: [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510015501](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510015501)
Well, now I understand better why conservatives think America is a country awash in violent crime.
It is, *for their states*.
And those states STILL have the highest homicide rates.
Someone needs to make a gif of all of these state heatmaps back to back to visually show they are all what you’d expect
Here’s a picture of a white guy in a Spirit Halloween prisoner costume for some reason.
Pretty cool visualization. Definitely needs to be noted that it’s not just a map of criminality though. It’s just as much a map of attitudes toward prosecution, and this format is not great for parsing the two out from eachother. Still cool to see and definitely useful in that overall discussion.
I’m sure folks know this but at a glance it can be easy to forget things like that
Good ol’ bible belt throwing people in jail* left and right
The more you look at maps of America, the more you realize how much wealthy blue states subsidize the South.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate)
* Finland 52
* France 115
* Germany 68
* Italy 105
* Japan 33
https://preview.redd.it/cxw8i5wn0eqf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7515959965973dbe2f77d5ba94fcaf5dff5e9060
1 percent of people in prison?!? Damn
Love and hate the south at the same time
my country average is somewhere around 70, because a few years ago they decided to make riding without a ticket in public transportation a criminal offense with the 3.d time, and so the numbers sky-rocketed.
well, dont worry, america. as your inmates have the legal status of slaves, these inmates are important for the gdp you all seem to love more then life.
Seeing this map and bastion of government oppression that is the South, I am reminded of an exchange from the movie Easy Rider:
[George Hanson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): They’re not scared of you. They’re scared of what you represent to ’em.
[Billy](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.
[George Hanson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.
[Billy](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000454/?ref_=ttqu_qu): What the hell is wrong with freedom? That’s what it’s all about.
[George Hanson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000197/?ref_=ttqu_qu): Oh, yeah, that’s right. That’s what’s it’s all about, all right. But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different thangs. I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. **Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are.** Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.
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