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Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover,

and look, we've talked about this on the podcast before but it really bears mentioning again

it's a huge enough fact that we frankly should be talking about it all the time and every day

that we forget about it is a small sin that we're committing.

I'm exaggerating slightly but not really. Here's what I want to talk about.

America incarcerates more people than any other country on earth.

Nearly 2.2 million people are in prison in this country.

That's about the populations of Wyoming, Montana,

and Vermont combined.

OK, this is, I just want to be super clear, this is one of the most

staggering facts about America, like when we serve the Egyptians, right? We note that the

Pharaoh's built these massive structures just to hold their remains and we say,

wow, that is massive and super weird, right?

Well, ask yourself, what will the archaeologists of the future say about our society?

I think they'll note the massive structures that we built to keep enormous portions of

our society under lock and key.

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