That would be correct. If they don’t want to do the time they shouldn’t do the crimes.
OK let’s do some math.
Incarceration rate of non-Hispanic white males in the US is 678 per 100k. For non-Hispanic white females it is 91 per 100k.
This works out to a per capita incarceration rate for non-Hispanic whites of 380 per 100k.
In Canada, the per capita incarceration rate for ALL ethnicities is 110 per 100k.
So even factoring out blacks and Hispanics entirely from the equation, the US still incarcerates over three and a half times the number of non-Hispanic white people as Canada does.
Now that ethnicity is factored out of the equation, what explanation have you for that 250% difference? Why does the US imprison 3.5 people per 100k population for every one that Canada does?
Also, keep in mind that the problem actually gets worse when you factor out minority populations, because then our comparables are now other almost-all-white countries like Denmark (61 per 100k incarceration rate), Sweden (60), Finland (57), France (100), Germany (78), Belgium (105), etc.
A “normal” incarceration rate for a Western country populated mostly by white people is 100 per 100k capita or less. We are at 380 for white people alone.
Are you ready to concede that this country has an excessive incarceration problem?