that said, I don't think 8% is small, and the relative growth, the shift from public to private prisons is remarkable:
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/capitalizing-...
and also, as a European I was shocked to learn about voter disenfranchisement in the US as a regular common part of many convictions.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/felony-disenf...
voting right is a human right.