Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population [1]. So the prison population can decrease by significant amounts without releasing any violent criminals.
[1]: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
this is not true. your data is federal only. most prisoners are at state prisons. drug offense is about 1/5 of total.
source https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html
And is imprisoning people who are smuggling/distributing hard and potentially very dangerous drugs really that controversial?
i was just stating the fact that the initial number posted was wrong/incomplete.
Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population [1]. So the prison population can decrease by significant amounts without releasing any violent criminals.
[1]: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...