The war on drugs of the 1980s and mandatory minimum sentences have both contributed to the United States comprising approximately 25 percent of the world’s prison population despite representing about 5 percent of the world’s total population.
However, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is taking a stand against bipartisan legislation to rectify those statics, believing the U.S. has an “under-incarceration problem.”
Cotton said Thursday at the Hudson Institute, a conservative nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., the arguments of advocates of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, currently under review in congress, are “baseless.”
