I hear this repeated all the time, but I have my doubts. <\/p>\n
Since almost all cases today involve plea deals, how can we be sure about this alleged problem? For example, let’s say a person is busted for five offenses, two of them violent, but the prosecutor makes a deal and he pleads to simple pot possession. Then the good-hearted liberal comes along and says, “why is this guy in jail for ten years just for having a little pot?”<\/p>\n
The current system needs to be reformed, but we’re not going to fix it by making little tweaks without looking at the whole picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I hear this repeated all the time, but I have my doubts. Since almost all cases today involve plea deals, how can we be sure about this alleged problem? For example, let’s say a person is busted for five offenses, two of them violent, but the prosecutor makes a deal and he pleads to simple … Continue reading “Are too many people in jail for minor pot possession?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}