>For some strange reason the US nowadays is comparable in the percentage of prisoners in USSR in worst Gulag years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_

>For some strange reason the US nowadays is comparable in the percentage of prisoners in USSR in worst Gulag years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in... I don't have an explanation here, TBH. The US is a rich and socially advanced country. In comparison to Europe this feels very wrong. The US justice system is very broken. No matter where one stands politically (e.g. be more lenient or be tougher on crime), the current system is suffering from bureaucracy, ineffectiveness, ineptitude and slowness. It's caught in an endless feedback loop.