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Originally Posted by Willravel
This sounds like a campaign to outlaw texting or television. Hey, maybe we should throw people that text message in prison. It's not like they're so overcrowded that we're actually letting prisoners go.
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I recently saw figures stating that state prisons are overcapacity by 1 to 16% and federal prisons are overcapacity by over 30%. Approximately a quarter of all prisoners in both jurisdictions are drug offenders. Now, I don't know how many are in there for marijuana-related offenses, but I can only assume it's a sizable population.
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