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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
5% and 27% turn out to be a high number of people Dellinger!
plus its not hard to get charged with intent to sell even if that is not your intent.
Cops just want your money, they arent trying to help people. (not all cops of course)
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That's 5% and 27% of prisoners incarcerated on drug charges not of the prison population as a whole. Since 20%* of the prison population is in for drug related crimes those numbers are actually 1% and 5.4%. Considering a good deal of possession with intent cases get plead down to simple possession those numbers are even less.
The Supreme Court ordered california to reduce its population by 23% so some real bad guys are definately going to be released. The Supreme Court has ruled the rights of criminals trump the safety of society. Specifically the poor of society as most of the released will return to poor neighborhoods.
Looked up State of CA prison records for new admissions in 2010. Only 0.2% or 119 men and 5 women were admitted for marijuana possession and 729 total went in for possession with intent to sell. 58,743 total were admitted.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2211585/
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Resea...CHAR1d2010.pdf