UK Politics

5348 readers

144 users here now

General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.

Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.

Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.

If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)

Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.

Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

tom@feddit.uk

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk

flamingos@feddit.uk

frankPodmore@slrpnk.net

Despite being 9.1% of the population, Catholics make up 17% of the UK's prison population (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

PDF — if you add up the columns, 13437 of 79235 prisoners are Catholic

top 6 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Really makes your think.... That these sort of statistics always lack important context.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your comment is also not supplying context.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

The context is that society is complicated and income distribution and housing stability are not uniformly distributed by region or religion, so many of these statistics just mirror painfully obvious things like:

People in low income areas are more likely to go to prison (people in high income areas can probably afford a better lawyer & get a better deal)
People who aren't part of the dominant religion are likely to have moved more recently
People who have recently moved are more likely to move to lower income areas where housing is more affordable

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 4 weeks ago

Catholics always have been overachievers.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago

Does being catholic give you access to church time in prison? As that might be a nice perk that people would go for.

[–] RubberDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Why do they break the Christian groups down by denomination but not the Muslim or Hindu ones?