1. The War on Drugs - The Failure Continues
One reason the war on drugs has been a failure is because The New Jim Crow has shown that in the past three decades, the United States prison population has skyrocketed from 300,000 to more than two million, the majority of the increase being from drug convictions. ... In "The New Jim Crow: Author Michelle Alexander Talks About Race and Drug War" article, Alexander states that, "2.2 million people are in jail or prison and 7.7 million are under control of the criminal justice system, and African American boys, men, and now women are making up a disproportionate number of those i...
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