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Prison is where criminals go. Jail is where people not convicted of a crime go. Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population [1]. So the prison populati
by lesuorac 4y ago
Prison is where criminals go. Jail is where people not convicted of a crime go.
Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population [1]. So the prison population can decrease by significant amounts without releasing any violent criminals.
[1]: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
- kooshball 4y ago> Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population this is not true. your data is federal only. most prisoners are at state prisons. drug offense is about 1/5 of total. source https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html
- dotancohen 4y agoA reduction of 20% is most certainly significant.
- shjake 4y agoWhat proportion of them are in prison for possession of small/personal amounts? And is imprisoning people who are smuggling/distributing hard and potentially very dangerous drugs really that controversial?
- dotancohen 4y agoI have no idea, I don't live there. I'm responding to the assertion that 1/5 is not significant.
- kooshball 3y agono one asserted 1/5 is not significant. you misread this. i was just stating the fact that the initial number posted was wrong/incomplete.