I see a vicious cycle there, with the USofA having one of the top wannabee airtight "punishment" models in the world. Naturally, third world countries are more lax on enforcing things like drug laws, or even having them in the first place. Tight law enforcement and long incarceration is just too expensive for some countries.

Every time an unfairly targeted inner city black gets nailed on drug charges, the range of job options and the ease of slipping back into the work force decreases.

Admittedly, the inner cities may not be where the low-skill easy entry jobs are, except for the illegal ones.

So, the urban areas want to, and find ways export their surplus underqualified, unskilled to the State Pen? That's one way to spread the burden, avoid local social "support" expenses, I guess.