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According to a report from Fox News, state governments spend nearly four times more per capita on imprisoning people than on education.

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Unfortunately, the report fails to point out one of the single most important reforms that much be implemented to address the prison overcrowding problem: completely and totally ending the “war on drugs.” According to the book Drug War Facts, nearly 1/5 of all adults incarcerated in state prisons during 2007 were drug offenders. Ending the drug war and granting amnesty to incarcerated drug offenders would free up billions of dollars per year in the state prison system alone.