According to the Department of Justice, five percent of inmates in prison are there because of simple possession.
As of June, 2007 approximately 2,230,000 people were in prison, which means roughly 115,000 people were in jail for simple possession. At an average annual cost per inmate of 46 thousand dollars, that's a per year cost of 5,290,000,000 dollars to incarcerate people for simple possession - these are not drug dealers, these are not people who committed other crimes - these are people who merely had drugs in their possession. 5.3 billion dollars a year. This is in addition to the 40 billion dollar a year budget for the War of Drugs. If legalizing, or at least decriminalizing, drugs isn't a mainstream position, it should be. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first two of those positions are fringe positions, not liberal ones. > Legalizing drugs is borderline fringe, although partial legalization of some > drugs (e.g. marijuana) enjoys fairly broad support. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277864 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
