It’s not a question of loving the underdog. It’s a question of keeping almost 1% of our population in prison not making economic or human-rights sense.
We’re talking something like $70 billion per annum not including costs of litigation. Halving that would reduce the national deficit by 5%. It would pay every American’s health insurance premium for half a month or buy every child under 18 an iPad 🙂
(Yeah, I realize it’s mostly not Fed money, but my point is to make a point.)
