Most states do now. There's no room in the prisons and no more money to build new prisons. The same lawmakers who pass tough on crime laws have to pass measures to let people out earlier and earlier to make room for all the new convicts. It wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have so many going down for so long on piddly little drug cases.
“It wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t have so many going down for so long on piddly little drug cases.”
Agree entirely. In Virginia some legislators tried to get the General Assembly to look at alternatives for certain people because of the enormous cost of running our prisons, but by golly you can’t look soft on crime. BTW, Republicans run the legislature, although some Democrats also opposed it.