punishment in the US

Today we had a lecture about punishment in the US. It was interesting to hear the American view thinking about it.
 First, we got a survey about the crime you commit and we should fill out it.
In the end they presented the result: 90 people in the room commited about 6000 crimes, this means the median is about 76 crimes per person. It is a large number and I could not imagine it. It would be interesting to figure out which result we would have in Germany under the same conditions. During the lesson we got some interesting information about the deliquency in the USA. The incarcerate rate is much higher in the US than in Russia and the most countries in Europe. This fact did not surprise me. Considering the issues for example of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, this characteristic number do not surprise me at all. I think it is a kind of bias.
Another interesting fact was that drugs play an important part in the US, because it is the common reason why people get arrested in prison. About 36 percent of them are black people. Comparing this fact with the percentage of the entirity of black people in the US it is three times higher (it is 12 percent black people in the USA).