Claim: Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.
Fact-check: Gary Johnson says U.S. prisons are packed with small-time drug dealers
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Maryalice Gill
Date published: 2011-09-22T00:00:00