Whoa there hotshot. Not so fast.
What ARE we spending and where? I mean, go ahead and add $8 billion or so for all the federal drug inmates if that floats your boat. There you go. A nice, big, fat, round $20 billion. In a $3 trillion budget.
What do you think the federal government is spending? Where do you get your numbers? Let's see that before we go ranting on about $120 billion, shall we? You'd think this is DU, for crying out loud.
"Just think of the benefits to the Correctional Officers Association!"
Screw 'em. I'm in favor of scrapping our prisons, state and federal, and paying Mexico to house them. Offer the Mexican government $10-20 thousand per prisoner per year and we'd both make money.
Visitation? Get a passport and buy a bus ticket to Nuevo Laredo.
"But that's from the ONDCP that you've already admitted uses bogus numbers."
No. These are NSDUH numbers.