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This may sound insane to many who've not spent time outside our borders but the US is one the the most moral countries in the world. The average American has absolutely no clue how normal and everyday, corruption and bribery are elsewhere. It's part of daily life. Was once in a small country in the eighties, where if you wanted to get something (not illegal) through customs you had to walk around handing out money like you were Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne in Aspen.
You simply cannot compare incarceration rates of countries like Russia to ours. The people incarcerated in Russia are the petty crooks and the political outcasts. The Russian mafia is HUGE. The truly bad guys are protected and will never see prosecution.
We all hear stories about a prosecutors son or nephew getting away with crimes and we talk about it because it's scandalous. In foreign countries it's not scandalous, it's the norm. Nobody's embarrassed by it and nobody loses their job over it when it comes to light.