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>>rossan+(OP)
> It is the perfect combination of crap.

I think that's being way too charitable.

In a world where people are incarcerated on a scale unprecedented in all of human history, and where prosecutorial success is measured by number of scalps taken, the assumption that this is plain malice designed to let the state rob a few more individuals of their freedom makes much more sense than it all being just a big pile of incompetence and misunderstandings.

>>p-e-w+g55
Source? Incarceration rate seems to be going down in western countries: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/07/1096042

>>WA+yf5
Their source could be your source, which you seem to be very seriously misreading.

> As the global population grew 21 per cent, between 2000 and 2019, the number of prisoners worldwide jumped by more than 25 per cent, according to the UNODC data.

So, worldwide trend is upward.

> While Northern America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe have experienced a long-term decrease in imprisonment rates of up to 27 per cent, other regions and countries, such as Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, have seen up to 68 per cent growth over the last two decades, the study revealed.

So apparently your definition of “western countries” includes sub-Saharan Africa but excludes most of Europe and all of Australia and New Zealand?

Overall your own source supports their point and contradicts your own.