The US Dept. of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that at yearend 2020 there were 1,043,705 sentenced people in state prisons in the US, of whom 131,600, or 12.6% of the total, had as their most serious offense a drug charge: 33,700 for drug possession (3.2% of the total) and 97,800 for "other" drug offenses (which includes manufacturing and sale) (9.4% of the total).