I agree the US incarcerates too many people, does the comparison to China make sense? How can we trust their numbers especially when they disappear people.
Well don't trust China's numbers, and compare the US incarceration rate to those of any industrialized country's numbers that you do trust.
"Too many" doesn't mean much when you look at actual crime rates of serious things like murder and rape where most people don't want those people to be free to commit more crimes that are less susceptible to reporting bias.
Yeah I mean we also have more crime too, so I feel like we’d need to normalize this somehow with like incarcerated/crime rate or something. Given I think nonviolent offenses should be less severely punished than they are today.