Decriminalize Drug Use to Lower Prison Population

It seems like this is a trend in a lot of states these days. Letting prisoners go early with good behavior, and not readmitting them for parole violations. I have a better idea though, to keep the prison population down. How about decriminalizing drugs?

ALBANY - The Paterson administration has proposed further emptying New York’s prisons by releasing more inmates six months early for good behavior, putting middle-age convicts into shock camps and punishing technical parole violations with something short of prison.

N.Y. plans to release more inmates from prisons « Prisonmovement’s Weblog

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