One involves imprisonment with no chance of release with potential torture, the other is allowed free after their jail term. I don't understand your comparison?
Tt'll be though rebuilding your life, since employment opportunities are denied to ex-inmates, and thanks to probation fees, you'll be saddled with debts hard to pull away from.
> The criminal representation rate now is generally said to be somewhere between 30-50%.
Last I checked, in the US, every person is entitled to representation. You want to argue that a country without a separate independent judiciary is capable of producing fairer outcomes for individuals without political collusion?
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/wait-do-people-actual...
You'll be forced to work and live in prisons overrun by the pandemic
https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/coronavirus-sweepi...
Even if you're released, you'll be jailed right away if the battery of your electronic monitor will ran out
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ankle-monitors-are-anoth...
Tt'll be though rebuilding your life, since employment opportunities are denied to ex-inmates, and thanks to probation fees, you'll be saddled with debts hard to pull away from.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2019/04/09/probation_incom...
Ultimately, if you fail to repay those fees, you'll be jailed again. The system works wonderfully... for the for-profit prisons
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/capitalizing-...
The US is a modern day dystopia, and I don't think that anyone seriously thinks that China's prison system is as bad as the US'