US: 1 in 32 Adults In Jail or on Parole

[Big Booger]

A record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department.

That's a rather high percentage of the population. Question is how many of them are in jail or on parole for simple drug possession/usage/distribution?

From 1995 to 2003, inmates in federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth.

So remove the drug charges and you shrink that by half!

Free the dope smokers, legalize today! :rasta:

Read the rest:
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/international/news/20061130p2g00m0in052000c.html

[efc]

Keep building those prisons.

http://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html

[rik]

Send em all here (http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/27/tough.sheriff/)

[cash_site]

Gee Rik, you run a tight ship in Arizona! I would definitely not do crime if threatened to be sent to the "Tent" City!

Good on the sheriff for feeding the dogs 1.10 $ of food, and the inmates only 90cents...lol... i guess 50c would get a discount ;)