[happyscrappy]

So the phone companies are in on it too? Maybe the problem is people commit crimes? Most crimes go unsolved. How many crimes happen before they are actually caught.

[Joeri]

So, comparing US incarceration stats with other countries, would you then say the average US citizen is more likely to commit crime than other nationalities?

[watwut]

Crime rates are about the same. Sentences in US are way higher then elsewhere.

[pgsandstrom]

The homicide rate is more than 50% higher than the european average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

[joesmo]

If by "in on it too," you mean have an interest in keeping the current prison status quo, then yes, absolutely. The rest of your rant is irrelevant.