At least half the violence was drug induced

For all the attention we pay to people convicted of drug crimes, they make up only 15 percent of our state prison populations. Over half the people serving time in state prisons have been convicted of a violent crime; half of those convicted of violence—or more than 25 percent of all prisoners—have been convicted of the most serious crimes: murder, manslaughter or sexual assault. Senator Booker (rightly) disagreed with locking people up for life on drug charges, but that’s something that really happens only in the relatively small federal prison system. In state prisons, which hold nearly 90 percent of the nation’s 1.5 million prisoners, almost 95 percent of inmates serving long sentences have been convicted of serious violence, not drugs; about half or more of such inmates were convicted of murder or manslaughter.

I would hazard to guess that half or more of your violent criminals had gotten involved with Meth, at least, and cocaine sometimes. The meth leaves the person disabled, unable to control themselves, leading to violence.

Your best effort is to shut down the Mexican cartels, a difiicult task and impossible when the cartels have active political; support in Calizuels. We are sort of fucked on this, Dems will just let the kids get fouled up on cartel drugs and claim that drug treatment solves the problem. The Dems are so afraid of crossing the Calizuela cartel politicians. Basically we already are being screwed over by a failed Hispanic state.