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>>gruseo+(OP)
I live in Australia and have been planning to migrate to the US in the near future. However this article has genuinely made me reconsider.

I knew there was an incarceration problem in the US, but I didn't realise it was this bad.

>>zemaj+mi
If you aren't a criminal, you're probably about as likely to be incarcerated in the US as you are to be eaten by a crocodile in Australia. If I were you about be more worried about American crime rates than incarceration rates.

>>rsheri+bo
The chance of being eaten by a crocodile in Australia is about 1 in 20m in any given year (a lot less if you stay in the lower 2/3s of the country, essentially zero for > 95% of the population).

The article above indicates that many innocent people in the US are encouraged to plead guilty. I'm inclined to believe the opposite.

>>cromul+Co
That was one of the 99.9% of statistics that were made up on the spot. The point is that being incarcerated for no reason is way down on the list of worries for Americans who aren't criminals - far below random encounters with criminals who haven't been incarcerated, for example.

And where does the article does not indicate that many innocent people in the US are encouraged to plead guilty?