> John Legend gave a rousing speech in accepting the Oscar for best music for the civil-rights drama “Selma,” ...Legend won the award with rapper Common for their song “Glory,” ...”We live in the most incarcerated country in the world,” Legend said. “There are more black men under correctional control today than there were under slavery in 1850.”
The difference is, slavery was wrong.
There are probably more Americans with DWI charges on their records now than under Prohibition as well.
Not all comparisons can be made strictly on numbers but it sounds good as a tweet or bumpersticker.