Where did you get this statistic? There are only 1.2 million people total in prison (still too many but...)
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/prisoners-2021-stat...
I found one site that claimed the total population of people incarcerated is 1.7 million but still, for either number, black Americans, while possibly over represented, could never = 2 million given those numbers
Where did you get this statistic? There are only 1.2 million people total in prison (still too many but...)
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/prisoners-2021-stat...
I found one site that claimed the total population of people incarcerated is 1.7 million but still, for either number, black Americans, while possibly over represented, could never = 2 million given those numbers