[robertpaulsen]

"We wouldn't be turning murderers out early to make room for MJ users with mandatory minimum sentences."

Therefore, we'd have the same number of prisoners. Therefore we need the same number of prisons. Therefore we need the same number of guards.

Exactly what I said.

[Mike4Freedom]

Therefore, we'd have the same number of prisoners. Therefore we need the same number of prisons. Therefore we need the same number of guards.

We cannot know for sure if the removal of drug prisoners and the increase in real criminals due to focused police work will cancel out or not, but obviously, the nation will be better off because the correction resources will no longer be wasted on harmless folks.