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    4. Geekenstein on

      Bachelor’s degree or above, so specifically excluding the most numerous higher education institutions – community colleges. Agenda much?

    5. a_rabid_anti_dentite on

      Deliberately using a more narrow definition of „college“ than the actual definition that’s commonly used in the United States.

      Edit: take a famously punitive state like Florida, which currently has about 156,000 people behind bars in the state, third highest total in the country. If you put together the student populations of Florida State and the Universities of Florida, Central Florida, and South Florida, you easily clear that number. I’m much more interested in the actual people behind these questions than just buildings.

    6. Thebaronofbrewskis on

      In Nebraska there are 9 prisons, there are 44 colleges 28 of which you can get a bachelor’s …. This whole map is just a lie

    7. iowaman79 on

      Using a narrow definition of college while using the widest definition of Prison/Jail

    8. PerleV on

      Utah has 2 prisons (and 0 federal.) Almost every county has a temporary holding facility, but for some reason your map wants to include that.

      It has 36 colleges/universities. But for some reason you want to only include one’s that offer bachelor’s degree or above…

      Your agenda is very strange, probably “uneducated”something something and “flyover states.”

    9. birdsbooksbirdsbooks on

      This map is lumping jails and prisons together, which are not the same thing. Jails are short term – usually where people await trial. Prisons are where people serve their sentences. There are usually far more jails than prisons in each state.

    10. Xrsyz on

      Maximum definition of prison and minimal definition of college. More misinformation from this sub.

    11. Varjek on

      This is as misleading as it gets. In my state, every county is required to have a jail… for the sake of the people being detained! Otherwise they’d have to be taken hours from their home just to be detained and released.

      But on top of that, if you add up every jail and prison inmate in my state, you still wouldn’t even have half the population of the colleges and universities in my state. Comparing a 100 person jail to a 25,000 person college on a 1:1 is obviously a tactic.

      This is a troll post intended to push a lunatic ideology about not incarcerating people who hurt others… so they can continue to hurt others. Disgusting.

    12. Rossum81 on

      Every county in the US (with the possible exceptions of the sparsely populated ones like Loving Texas) has to have a jail.  A good sized college can service a large area.

    14. BluesHockeyFreak on

      Illinois has 29 prisons and has between 70 and 150+ colleges depending on what you want to count as a college.

    15. I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 on

      So this specifies what is counted as a college, but it doesn’t for jails/prisons. Does any police station with a holding cell count as a jail, or is it only counting standalone jails/prisons/lock-ups? Also, by only counting institutions that grant bachelor degrees or above as colleges, that likely leaves out community colleges, where the highest degree attainable is typically associates.

    18. grilledbruh on

      There are 33 prisons in Illinois (28 state, 5 federal) and 127 collages, if we’re adding universities then is 298

    20. sammy-taylor on

      Is West Virginia hanging out with the cool kids? I gotta call my mom, this is a momentous discovery for the Pepperoni Roll State.

    21. boreduser127 on

      Either this is purposeful lying or they are including every single drunk tank at every police station as a “jail”. North Carolina has about 5 times as many colleges as it does prisons.

    23. wolf_at_the_door1 on

      It’s almost as if blue states care more about education and enriching one’s lives while red states care more about punishment and controlling others lives.

      I love maps like this because it explains a lot with no words.

      Feel free to comment on my observations.

    24. -Redditeer- on

      Is this based on private only? Community colleges are very prevalent across the nation. Im no hails expert but I dont think this map is correct

    25. PicantePlantain on

      I was about to get really sad over this map. Then I check the comments and it’s people ragging on it calling out how it’s misrepresenting data with an ill-defined term. Amazin’

    27. MRRRRCK on

      Hey look – a useless map.

      And if you don’t understand why it’s problematic… practice some critical thinking skills today.

    28. Erikkamirs on

      I’ve seen so many articles saying that my state has too many publicly funded universities (we have more colleges than Florida despite only having a quarter of the population.) 

      It’s so funny comparing the numbers 30 prisons/jails compared to 14 publicly funded colleges (or 20 if we count private colleges). I guess our prison fund is also getting spread thin as well considering we had escapees earlier this year lol. 

    32. Successful-Show4785 on

      It’s easier to get rid of people than social problems, thing is, problems cannot be thrown in a cell and expect them to disappear forever

    33. RD_Dragon on

      Ah good old USA, the land of freedom 😎 you are free to capitalise on penitentiary system as much as you can on education system. In general you americans have created the best system to squeeze our all the juice from the citizens. Student loans, medical bills from hell, no paid leave/vacation, no maternal leave and many other absurds that make living there a hell of an adventure.

    36. BenjaminHarrison88 on

      Complete garbage. Seems to be counting county jails as prisons, which reflects the size of counties in a state more than any predilection for prisons

    37. FLYGODISAWESOME on

      Wow I knew Texas had hella jails but damn I can name like 30 universities there off top lol

    38. juliankennedy23 on

      I’m not even sure what this chart’s supposed to measure? Are counties not supposed to have prisons or cities not supposed to have lockups?

      Are you counting that jail cell next to Bernie Fife’s desk As a prison?

    40. ur_moms_chode on

      Hawaii just sends a bunch of its prisoners to Arizona instead of building more prisons.

    42. traveler-traveler on

      I mean, as a lifelong resident of California I think a disclaimer needs added that the colleges here essentially act like prisons for people that don’t align to a specific way of thinking. So that map is kind of skewed.

    43. mr-sandman-bringsand on

      What would Colorado look like if we could hide canon city? I think around 14 federal/state prisons are there including the supermax

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