If you're talking about the U.S. prison-industrial system, you answered your own question. More people are imprisoned in the United States than were in the Sov

If you're talking about the U.S. prison-industrial system, you answered your own question. More people are imprisoned in the United States than were in the Soviet gulags or Nazi Germany. More black people are in the prison/parole system than were enslaved before the passage of the 13th Amendment.