interesting take on the US prison system

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from Slate: Why are so many Americans in prison? -- this law professor argues it isn't the drug war, but aggressive DAs.

If you released every person in prison on a drug charge today, our state prison population would drop from about 1.5 million to 1.2 million. So we’d still be the world’s largest incarcerating country; we’d still have an enormous prison population.