Honest question how does Germany treat someone with schizophrenia or a similar issue. I don’t have the stats at the ready but my feeling would be that in the US we shutdown and replaced the mental institutions with the hope that people could be freely in the population with meds, but people with serious mental issues often don’t take their meds. And there isn’t a place for them we just let them ride in the population until they do something criminal and then go to jail. So I haven’t done a comparison but could it be that the 5% of the population is in Prison in part because in other countries some of that population is in mental institutions and they aren’t being counted as being in “Prison” but that is where they are, medicated, and not producing crimes? Otherwise I believe the US system has a lot of drug related crime. The crime of taking the drug, selling the drug, and the violence that occurs as gangs fight for positions in an illicit market. So I’d be curious how Germany approaches drugs (hard and soft). Those are the two areas that I think the biggest problem are for the US prison system.