are “hard of crime”. Judges that, because of mandatory minimums are forced to hand out ungodly sentences for low-level drug crimes in particular. In a report by a group - called “In the Public Interest” published a report titled” Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and: Low-Crime Taxes” Guarantee Profits for Prison Corporations.” The report shows. “private prisons companies mandate high inmate occupancy rates through their contracts with states – in some cases, up to 100 percent.” In this scenario, regardless whether or not the crime rates are declining the and occupancy requirements mandate that local or state government keep those facilities between 80 and 100 percent full.

Recidivism
In Michelle Alexanders book “The New Jim Crowe.” Once convicted, due to the drug war’s harsh sentencing laws, drug offenders in the United States spend more time under the criminal justice system’s formal control in jail or prison, on probation or parole- than drug offenders anywhere else in the world. While under legal control, every aspec...