2/ Further, many of those arrested for drugs are involved in drugs only BECAUSE they are illegal. They have few skills & seek out areas of employment that return well for the labor invested Today that's drugs, but legalize drugs, and the profits would fall and they'd move on >
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3/ and I bet we'd see an uptick in the number of property crimes (stealing cars, burglary, etc.)
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the high ratio of pretrial detention to convicted does indicate some significant fuckery; if anything, fixing the justice system to remedy that would be a much bigger deal (if that's even possible in current society)
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I think a lot of places move inmates from local to state facilities once they're convicted.
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I wonder why the ratio is so much higher in federal prisons? States don't persecute the war on drugs as much?
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Everything you say is, sadly, true. We are now seeing the intersection of all these policies in Canada. Government is trialling a needle exchange program... in prisons! If anything should be a clue...https://twitter.com/DavidKMagnus/status/996217018608074752?s=19 …
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