I'm not really into speculation about such things BT, nor do I care to spend the time sortin it all out, 'sides, stats/data and the reporting methodology in the 1st place can be manipulated in any number of ways to arrive at whatever destination one choose to head for, so it all becomes suspect in the end.

I think the US keeps at least fairly accurate data on a lot of things as do many other countries while many others manipulate things to keep themselves lookin better than things really are, yakno

I do hafta agree that without the draconian war on drugs our prison populations would be much lower. And ... if we simply expelled the illegals within the prison system back to their countries of origin it would likely have the same effect while also savin good ol John Q a shitload of cash at the same time. Sounds like a win-win if there ever was one