That said, I think we are way out of whack in the jail terms for minor drug offenses.

My (partial) solution to US jail overcrowding;

1) reduce or eliminate incarceration for misdemeanor possession of drugs by legalizing them

2) illegal aliens imprisoned in US facilities should be deported immediately. If the countries exporting their criminals to us don’t want them back they lack the proper motivation and should be made tounderstand that we will not stand for this action any longer.

3) Effectively fund and staff capital cases to help ensure fair and accurate trials followed by a speedy and thorough appeal. Final convictions result in rapid execution. Returning the threat of actually dying from your sentence, rather than old age from a ridiculously long appeal, may add a factor of deterance to what is a punitive verdict, thus returning a little fear to the capital criminal.

There are more planks, but these are a good start o the platform.