““As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people behind bars in the United States was unprecedented in world history, and that one fourth of young African American men were now under the control of the criminal justice system. Despite the jaw-dropping impact of the 'get tough' movement on the African American community, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans revealed any inclination to slow the pace of incarceration.””
