We could immediately lower some of our taxes if we would stop putting people in jail for personal use of marijuana and other substances. Since about half of all prisoners are in jail for crime of that type, we should also start releasing them. What difference does it make if we finance government prisons or outsource to the prison/industrial complex of private prisons. We end up paying for it either way. Personally, I have no desire to make some company rich for this kind of stupidity.
This is one example of the very real difference between libertarian type thinking and other forms of conservatism.
Show us the numbers for that.
That is BS. Those in prison for drug crimes didn't get there for an ounce or two of pot for personal use. Any there for having pot for personal use had a rap sheet longer than your arm already, and likely were busted for probation violations.