Original sentence: It has been claimed that a major reason for the high numbers in prison in the United States is the drug laws that result in imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders.The United States has the highest reported incarceration rate in the world - though other nations (such as North Korea), which do not release incarceration statistics, may exceed it
Edited sentence: A major reason for the high numbers in prison in the United States is the drug laws that result in imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders.Some observers have gone so far as to accuse the United States of deliberately developing the legal system and the prison industry as a means of social control beyond that normally associated with criminal justice.The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world - though other nations (such as North Korea), which do not release incarceration statistics, may exceed it