They are, and I agree it's misleading. It's implying that it's somehow shocking that the individual states of the county with the highest incarceration rate in the world also have a high incarceration rate. If it was absolute numbers, it would maybe make a point. As it is, it's stating the extremely obvious and framing it as "look, it's even worse than you thought".

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Thank you that's what I meant, I just couldn't put it into words properly.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They are. Just ALL the states are significantly worse than most countries.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago

Yes but that doesn't really say much. We know it's bad in the US. If all German states were bad that would still only tell you that in average it's bad in Germany

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 16 hours ago

Even if, I think it's still a valid comparison as it's a rate.