> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the US prison population just 0.00730843528654% of our country's total population? Citation needed. In fact, the figure is

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the US prison population just 0.00730843528654% of our country's total population? Citation needed. In fact, the figure is 0.94% in jail, and 2.9% in one or more of jail/probation/parole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta... Quote: "According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2011 – about 0.94% of adults in the U.S. resident population.[4] Additionally, 4,814,200 adults at year-end 2011 were on probation or on parole.[8] In total, 6,977,700 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2011 – about 2.9% of adults in the U.S. resident population." This means your provided figure is (a) wildly exaggerated as to its accuracy, using far more digits than its source can justify, and (b) flat wrong to an astonishing degree. > Wouldn't it be more effective if we just decriminalized drug possession and just ended the drug war entirely? Absolutely, many agree including me. But your figures are still wrong.