Note, you have a minor misquote of the statistic from the article; it's 725 per 100000: > From BJS [Bureau of Justice Statistics], [...] an incarceration rate

Note, you have a minor misquote of the statistic from the article; it's 725 per 100000: > From BJS [Bureau of Justice Statistics], [...] an incarceration rate of about 725 people per 100,000 population. > Suppose every federal drug offender were released today. That would cut the incarceration rate to about 693 inmates per 100,000 population. Suppose further that every drug offender in a state prison were also released. That would get the rate down to 625