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Does US Rank No. 1 in Incarceration, Gas Consumption, Military Spending?


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The meme originated in a widely-shared tweet posted back in October 2020, and was also reposted on Facebook at that time. This fact check will focus specifically on the second half of the meme, “What the U.S. is #1 in” the potentially surprising and arguably dubious superlatives attached to the United States.
On the whole, the meme contained a mixture of accuracy and inaccuracy, much of which depended on the way in which certain rankings were viewed. For example, the U.S. spends by far the most of any country on its military, in absolute terms, but not when overall government spending or the size of the American economy is taken into account. ....

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Turkish prisons overcrowded under Erdogan's rule


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Turkey’s prison population has more than doubled in recent years, while the government jailed political opponents, lawyers and journalists at an increasing rate.
Recent
figures from Turkstat, the government’s statistics agency, showed there were 291,546 prisoners at the end of 2019 compared to 120,194 a decade earlier.
Since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party came to power in 2002, there has been nearly a four-fold rise in the number of incarcerations.
Inmate numbers have risen by at least 10 per cent each year since 2013, according to Turkstat.
From the end of 2010 to the end of 2020, Turkey s prison population grew by 13 per cent, ....

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