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According to the Prison Policy Initiative, well over 50% of state prisoners are incarcerated because of violent crime. On the federal level, the vast majority of drug convictions are for trafficking; exceedingly few are for mere possession.
If you check the breakdown on federal criminal offenses resulting in prison time, you'll find that a majority of those in prison are NOT in for drug offenses, according to Bureau of Prisons stats bop.gov/about/statisti…
So, if Biden wants to drop the prison population by more than 50%, he'll have to drop at least 9,000 non-drug offenders from the federal rolls as well as some 118,000 violent offenders from the state rolls. How's that going to work, and can they live next door to Joe Biden?
