Prison Population in Colorado

Nice article today about overcrowding in Colorado prisons. A crisis is at hand if taxpayer's don't pony up for extra prisons. Written by Mike Krause of the Independence Institute, more than 72% of the 21,000 inmates are of the non-violent variety and 22% were drug offenders. Now non-violent doesn't mean those prisoner's didn't violate other people's property rights, but the 1,300 drug-related prionsers violated nobody else's rights. The irony, if you can stomach it, is they are guilty of not violating anybody's rights until they are actually in prison, at which time our rights are violated to the tune of $36,400,000 per year. Thank you nanny-state.