Biden Losing It

[bennyboy]

You know, there's a way to spend less money on Those People.  Stop throwing so many of Them in jail.

That's what I'm saying, dude.  A prisoner costs a lot of money-- a damned lot.  How many hours of daycare for single moms, drug treatment programs, school upgrades and so on could you afford if you just released 3-strikes prisoners for things that aren't felonies anymore, like marijuana possession or even small-scale distributing?

Or what if we actually INVESTED tax payer dollars, heavily, in those things today, knowing that 20 years from now, there should be fewer criminals to imprison? For every child who doesn't end up in prison, that's one more adult we don't need to blah blah blah about social contracts and so on.