I was going to say the same thing. They are… swamp water opaque.
Hah. “Treatable” is relative. As is “could have gotten treatment for.” Those of us who are “free” are in many ways also blocked from the help we need by our broken system. When you have people committing crimes so they can go into prison and get the medical help they need, shit’s pretty fucked up for everyone not rocking a healthy stock portfolio.
Basically, I’m betting a lot of those deaths could have ben prevented as well.
" There are three kinds of lies : lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Efforts should be made to keep the prisoners alive.
Effort isn’t even being made to bathe, clean, and feed them.
If they are statistically not dying as fast as the rest of us, then perhaps we should all get locked up for our safety?
It’s possible they have a lower death rate compared to the “entire US population” because they can’t walk into traffic, drive into a tree, fall off a bridge, get hit by a speeding boat, board the wrong airplane, or do any of the other things that free, non-incarcerated people get to do every day.
Maybe instead of the death rate for the entire population, you should narrow your focus down to how many people are dying each year in our prisons? And even then you have to take into account so many variables that it still won’t honestly be comparable; like gang violence, grudges, lifers with nothing to look forward to, etc. But it will be a statistic.
ETA don’t forget to count how many are dying just trying to get into the US before they can end up in a concentration camp. Those are preventable deaths as well, and it’s all the shit that’s being placed in their way by our government that is getting them killed.
