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by wu-ikkyu 3076 days ago
>best numbers show about 15% of prisoners are in with drug charges.

That's incorrect. The source says ~16% had, as their most serious offence, a drug charge.

So in reality more than 16% are serving time for drug crimes. It seems a bit disingenuous that the statistic is posed like that, especially when considering the cyclical nature of incarceration,"3 strikes" laws, and the cascading violence caused by drug laws.