If you're going to count every incarcerated person, why not count every person in the world? There aren't 2.3 million people in jail.

> Fyodor would call our jails health spas compared to what existed in Russia during his lifetime between 1821 and 1881.

I absolutely guarantee that Russia had an order of magnitude lower proportion of incarcerated people than the US. We have a higher percentage of people in prison than any other nation on earth, double our nearest competitor.