Why Is the U.S. Prison Population So Large?

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Fully 24 percent of inmates in U.S. prisons are nonviolent drug offenders. The drug war has been adding to a growing U.S. prison population for the past 40 years. Today, the United States holds more human beings in prisons than any other country, both as a percentage of the population and in counting total numbers. Prof. Daniel D’Amico shows how the war on drugs has led to significant increases in the U.S. prison population and argues that perhaps this is an ineffective way to address drug use in America. The United States is spending billions of dollars and locking of hundreds of thousands of people. Might there be a better alternative?

    
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Peggy
Peggy
11 years ago

If anybody was ever listening to Ron Paul , he has been talking about this for years. But it’s all part of the control and power with the feds, and nothing to do with drugs or a “war on drugs”. Just like other wars, all phony