Have you been to prison? Most people who are there for crimes which appear victimless on the surface are absolutely sociopathic monsters. I’ve been to federal prison, and exposed to enough people imprisoned for drug crimes to hear them casually talk about the injustice of getting a long sentence just because one of their guys committed a heinous murder and it affected their points total. I’ve heard them laugh as they talked about getting a single mother desperate for drugs to fuck their dog for a rock.

You’re just giving these people free money and they will not change their behavior. Zero of them are going to listen to a single communication from a nonprofit over their own personal best interests and their attorney’s words, which is, statistically, to plead guilty.