Good point about the prison population. It is purely a business, unions lobby government to keep substances such as cannabis illegal in order to overpopulate the prisons, keeping their members in jobs and overtime. All at the expense of perpetrators of victimless crimes like you mentioned. The rationality of possible AI could do wonders to mans irrationality and greed.
Yeah exactly! For one, they can't bribe him or convince him that jail is a the best option. They would see through it immediately that it's for their own self-interest and not the public's.