The "War on Drugs" is responsible for most of the prisoners, most of them are non violent offenders who are incarcerated because of mandatory drug sentencing minimums. The war on drugs is really much more a war on freedom, it is incomprehensible to me that this country incarcerates more people than any country on earth no matter what metric you use....Be it per capita, or just total number of people in jail, then its compounded by the fact that once this non violent offender goes into the prison system the odds are 66% that he will return AS A VIOLENT OFFENDER.
We need some common sense on this whole drug issue.
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Mike South
It's No wonder I took up drugs and alcohol, it's the only way I could dumb myself down enough to cope with the morons in this biz.
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