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If there is a group of 1000000 people, and 5% of them are criminals, and all criminals get locked up, then 50000 people get incarcerated.
If there is a group of 5000000 people, and only 3.5% of them are criminals, and all criminals get locked up, then despite the lower relative proportion of criminality, that would still be 175000 people becoming incarcerated.
That was the general principle behind my argument. Especially since terms like "per capita" (which means "per individual") are meaningless in this context.
No they fucking aren't. And the chart specifically said per 100,000.
Per capita, by percentage, the U.S. locks up vastly more people than any other country, even runners-up like Russia.
If you are an American, you are vastly more likely to be incarcerated than anywhere else in the world.