[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp,_Bryan
So while I agree that in the US white colar criminals tend to suspiciously often get the lighter punishment and that this fact is a glaring injustice, I think the US prison system as a whole is so utterly misconstructed, that this cricicism is a drop in a vast ocean of injustices.
The point based system you have for assigning people to prison types might look fair, but coupled with predictive policing (aka positive feedback) and the police-tendency to let crimes slip for some demographics and not others, it leads to injustice.
As a Dane the American prison system baffles me. it obviously doesn't work and has commercial interests to the entire countrys detriment.
yet I still feel this schadenfreude and the sentiment that sentences should be rougher and longer.
where does this societal incongruence come from?
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/25/a_life_sentence_for_...