There is a distinction with a difference. When people say "jail" they may mean the big house but jail is usually at your local and county level. Jails house fresh arrests, those awaiting court, those awaiting sentencing, and those who are sentenced to misdemeanors which would generally mean a sentence of less than a year. Prison (state and federal) is where felons are sent after sentencing (duration of over a year up to life).
When Biden tossed this idea out - regarding freeing prisoners from federal institutions charged with marijuana possession - I laughed out loud. My wife and I were watching the news and I told her then that the type of prisoner he was describing would be a unicorn, probably non-existent. I was right.
People who wind up in federal prison for drug offenses are/were usually big time dealers and traffickers. Usually those people were already dealt with at times on the local and state level and they continued down the road of their enterprise even after being in trouble at lower levels. Federal prisons don't have populations of some dumb first time sap caught with a baggie and a one hitter, they just don't.
A cheap desperate campaign move, that's all.
Political correctness,...is the inability to speak the truth about the obvious.
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