This is the article (from a decade ago) that sticks in my mind: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/07/22/rough-justice https://www.economist.com/leaders/20

This is the article (from a decade ago) that sticks in my mind: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/07/22/rough-justice https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/07/22/rough-justice > America imprisons people for technical violations of immigration laws, environmental standards and arcane business rules. So many federal rules carry criminal penalties that experts struggle to count them. Many are incomprehensible. Few are ever repealed, though the Supreme Court recently pared back a law against depriving the public of “the intangible right of honest services”, which prosecutors loved because they could use it against almost anyone.