Statistics & Economics of Our Prison Nation

Great article, Prison Nation: Economic reasons to legalize marijuana, on the failed war on drugs and the cost of being a prison nation.  Two of my favorite numbers “The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980” and “it costs an average of $78.95 each day to keep a criminal behind bars.”  Continuing the status quo on the war on drugs is not an option!