The United States is good, and getting better, at locking up the worst and most incorrigible criminals. But it casts too wide a net. The 1995 crime bill, with its proposed $ 12.2 Billion in prison construction and extension of mandatory sentences was very much in this mold. More recently, 65% of the 2006 office of National Drug Control Policy budget is allocated to supply-side enforcement, which means increased incarceration rates and more public spending (for often privately operated state prisons) (Maru 2009). There have to be better and more creative ways of dealing with many criminal misfits.