What's coming to the forefront now is the fact that our drug laws have turned the US into a
prison society. Incarcerating non-violent drug users is insanely expensive. The only two reasons to incarcerate a person are to protect the person or society. Prison is not safe, and most of these individuals are not a threat to society.
If any administration created 2.3 million government jobs, the average taxpayer would be outraged. Each prisoner is the equivalent of a $30,000-per-year bureaucrat. If the government hired one file clerk for every 100 citizens, we would be complaining about waste in government. For some reason, no one has considered the crushing expense and human waste.
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1 in 100 adults now in prison
2,319,258 Americans behind bars in 2008, most of any nation
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