One in every 100 American Adult is in prison One in every NINE Black American has been in prison. Keeping the prison system alive is the 4th or the th largest budgetary item in most US states...and US is supposed to be a developed country. India is poor ...but if it had same proportion of criminals, it would have to build a city as big as Bombay just to house them. A great civilization is one where people live with peace and freedom despite economic adversity which is function of time and tides. This is where no nation in the world can aim to become equal to India.