On Jan 12, 9:37*pm, "
wrote:

No. *I saw a study a little while back of the NYS penal system. *There was
*ONE* person incarcerated for drug offenses alone.

Why do you make up this stuff?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarce..._United_States
"Violent crime was not responsible for the quadrupling of the
incarcerated population in the United States from 1980 to 2003.
Violent crime rates had been relatively constant or declining over
those decades. The prison population was increased primarily by public
policy changes causing more prison sentences and lengthening time
served, e.g. through mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes"
laws, and reductions in the availability of parole or early release.
These policies were championed as protecting the public from serious
and violent offenders, but instead yielded high rates of confinement
for nonviolent offenders. Nearly three quarters of new admissions to
state prison were convicted of nonviolent crimes. Only 49 percent of
sentenced state inmates were held for violent offenses. Perhaps the
single greatest force behind the growth of the prison population has
been the national "war on drugs." The number of incarcerated drug
offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980. In 2000, 22 percent of
those in federal and state prisons were convicted on drug charges."

Are you quite sure that the NYS they were referring to in that
imaginary study you mentioned wasn't the Namibian Youth Soccer penal
system? That's about the only way that your BS comment could be
possible.

Take off the blinders, please - for your own good.

R