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We lock up 2 million people while most advanced countries don't lock up anything near that. (They also have sensible things like restricting gun ownership and social welfare without shame.)
Yeah, we lock up far too many criminals. We should either ignore more laws or just get 'em off the books so we can be like "other" countries...
We shouldn't be locking up someone for stealing a slice of Pizza for life because some idiots passed a "Three Strikes" Law. Nor should we lock people up for smoking pot or becoming addicted.
Again, when you lock up a pot smoker with a rapist, you don't get a more mellow rapist, you get a more angry pot-smoker after he's been sodomized a few times.