I was going to regurgitate a statistic I found once about the US having the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world. Despite being the land of the f

I was going to regurgitate a statistic I found once about the US having the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world. Despite being the land of the free. It's been that way most of my life. But I just checked again and we've slipped to number 6!! Based on casual quick research, it looks like the United States slipped out of the top spot for per-capita incarceration sometime between 2008, when it peaked, and May 2023, when it was ranked the sixth highest rate in the world. The data suggests the decline accelerated between 2019-2020. (thanks Kagi LLM quick answer!) Maybe because we've increasingly stopped--err, slowed-- ruining people's lives over plants in more places over the last decade..