interesting, point of reference to how 'bad or good' this is, though, would be helpful.

also comparative density of population, might be interesting to see

well damnit Garrett, you've got me curious now

this is genuinely scary

this is where i saw it

Ever Wonder How Your Home State Might Be Similar To Iraq? Look At...

Yeeah, this is nonsense without exactly what Misha pointed out: prison population as a percentage of state population. Otherwise it's lies, damn lies, and statistics.

it just says with similar prison populations

it doesn't say these states have similar prisons to these countries and similar prisoner to resident ratios

I would be interesting to see those things added though.

I'm a bit skeptical of anything from Upworthy, especially because the author of the article admitted that she couldn't find the source.

With that said, I'm disturbed by the fact that New York has a similar prison population to the Philippines, but the Philippines has three

times as many people as New York.