[xiaoma]

Your comment is sarcastic, uncharitable and unproductive.

Obviously the narrow specifics around this case are not the sole cause of prison overcrowding. It's been driven by a massive expansion of criminal codes and decades of ratcheting minimum sentence guidelines upwards and get tough on crime efforts such as "three strikes" laws. The result has been a flood of people imprisoned for money laundering, recreational drugs, petty theft and an even larger number who are simply awaiting trial. The specific case in this story is just one example.

[dpark]

Are you asserting that overzealous prosecution of money laundering is a significant source of prison overpopulation? I'd love to see some sort of supporting evidence for this claim.

As it stands now, it looks to me like you're just lumping nearly every crime together and insinuating that because some are overpenalized that all are.