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Colonel Custer, in some ways I agree with you... However...
If drug possession and use were de-criminalized, that over-crowding problem would probably be gone next week.
Related crimes, IE thefts, assaults, etc by addicts would still exist - but those would be crimes in any case.
Point being, if you want to increase the crime rate, legislate more things into crimes. If you want to over-crowd your prisons, toss in some non-discretionary minimum sentences.
There can be more than one cause for any number of problems.
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