The US has 1.5 times the number of prisoners as China, with 6.3 times as many per capita. The US has 2.5 times the number of prisoners as Russia, with 1.2 time

The US has 1.5 times the number of prisoners as China, with 6.3 times as many per capita. The US has 2.5 times the number of prisoners as Russia, with 1.2 times as many per capita. The US has 27.5 times the number of prisoners as the UK, with 5.0 times as many per capita. (Interestingly, China has less prisoners per capita than the UK.) So you can make a lot of points about the relative quality of those prison experiences (and they might be valid points), but in terms of sheer volume of people that are incarcerated by their own government, the US outstrips both China and Russia by a wide margin - in both absolute and per capita terms.