Presented in partnership with Shadow Proof. The US justice system is notorious for its high incarceration rate and tough sentences, even for low level and non-violent offenses. The US now has more people incarcerated than were in the gulags in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Prison has become such an important and powerful concern that the term
White Collar Crime Prosecutions At 20 Year Low
Not only are fewer white collar criminals being incarcerated, they are not even being prosecuted in the first place.