Should the USA reduce the prison sentences for drug, and nonviolent crimes?

So. They started making you go away for a LONG time for drug possession, or distribution. It was in an effort to make it less desirable to do drugs.

But clearly, that hasn’t been the case. And marijuana is now legal in a few states, and will be legal in other states soon.

The long prison sentences don’t reduce crime. Don’t rehabilitate. Don’t seem to be beneficial to the country.

Is it time to admit that that strategy isn’t working, and send a lot of fathers and mothers home to their families?

The only beneficiaries seem to be the prisons.

America has one of the largest prison populations of the 1st world countries.