Well, I’m going to swim again the current here...
We have lots of people who have been sitting in prison for petty drug offenses done years ago, that today would barely get a slap on the wrist...
They should get a shot of getting and keeping their freedom...
Bottom line it’s cheaper to have these people on welfare, because their are no jobs, than the cost of imprisonment...
Another old-wives-tale promoted by the legalize-my-pot crowd. Repeat felons dealing in most cases, not just sit-at-home tokers who got caught.
It very much depends on how the screening for release is carried out. It is true that it is cheaper to pay for welfare than incarceration. On the other hand if they don’t go to their halfway houses or home detention, then they need to go back to prison. Then again, why is it that the US has the highest rate of incarcerated people of any first world country and most second world countries. The prison population has increased greatly since the for profit prisons were allowed on the scene. Got to keep those stockholders happy. It will be interesting to see in a few years what effect marijuana legalization in various states has on the crime statistics for those states.