What price did society pay for a guy driving around with a bunch of weed in his car for personal use? Countless people have been sent to prison for years for something as dumb as this. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about to so widely call these people a burden.
>if it did not, why would it be allowed.
because we live in a society that is massively exploited by greedy scumbags who are enabled by people like you thinking it's justified
This is both extremely dehumanizing and also not true.
Forced prison work isn't paying anything back to society. It's lining the pockets of people who are profiting from forced labor.