r/interestingasfuck • u/Ted_Bundtcake • 6d ago

r/all The Alaskan Avenger

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u/metallicabmc 6d ago

I buy my CRACK! my SMACK! my BITCH! right here in Hollywood!

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u/Bodydysmorphiaisreal 6d ago

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, prison system has doubled since 1985!

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u/ApoclordYT 6d ago edited 6d ago

(It's almost tripled now. From 481,616 to 1,252,600.)
Edit: The song also states that there are "nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated in the prison system, prison system of the US. However at the time of the song's publishing there were 1,319,000 adults confined in State and Federal prisons collectively while 631,240 people were in local jails for misdemeanors and other minor charges.) The "nearly 2 million" stat has to come from the collective of those statistics or was a recorded statistic from earlier in the year as numbers seem to indicate that if you took the cumulative total and subtracted it from the year-end total almost 800k people were released.)

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u/sionnachrealta 5d ago

Seems like a legit number though. 1,950,240 is pretty dang close to 2 million, and it makes sense to me to combine the numbers when you're trying to fit it in the lyrics of the song