 There are about 2.2 million people in American prisons. Most of them are there for nonviolent offenses. They didn't hurt other people. A while back the American Bar Association tried to count how many federal criminal laws there actually are. They kind of stopped at about 5,500 because they realized it was nearly an impossible task. You are probably committing multiple felonies every day. It could be because you've shipped something in a container that you shouldn't have shipped it in. It could be because you've talked to someone who you shouldn't have been talking to or you shared a photo that you didn't have the rights to. We simply have too many laws that are criminal that you can do jail time for. The proper scope of criminal law is to keep people from hurting each other. We put people in jail because they smoked the wrong drug. We put them in jail because they didn't comply with some sort of federal regulation. We aren't even properly doing criminal law. We are making people lose respect for the state when it punishes things that people do not think should be punished. Federal law needs to be rolled back and we need to deal with the problem of over-criminalization.