... , and more importantly the break out of various illegal/legal drugs. Throughout this paper I will examine the prison system from the past to the present, the demographics of the prison population, and the impact of drugs on the increasing incarceration rates. About 200 years ago, the Quakers and other reformers in Pennsylvania developed the institution of the penitentiary, which emphasized having ... , in absolute numbers, rose sharply, the increase was greatest for Blacks. In every state, the proportion of Blacks in prison exceeds, sometimes by a considerable amount, their proportion in ...

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... people under the age of 18 arrested daily in our country may astound some. In 1990, there were more than 1.7 million juveniles arrested, and since then the numbers have nearly doubled, even though the vast majority of these arrests have been for non-violent offenses, and four percent has been for non-criminal offenses, such as truancy, curfew violations or running ... . Although it is important to note that only about 52% of these arrests result in jail time, it is still a significant amount of juveniles behind bars. All together our prison population is at two million inmates. So what a...

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