Comment Re:How to balance the budget (Score 1) 1109
Even your figure of 1 million people in jail on drug charges is exaggerated. According to The Bureau of Justice Statistics only 20% of the prison population is in for pure drug related crimes.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
That would make it about 400,000 prisoners in for drug related crimes and according to their stats only about half of that number is in only for drug possesion.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
That would make it about 400,000 prisoners in for drug related crimes and according to their stats only about half of that number is in only for drug possesion.
