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“The percentage of drug arrests that result in prison sentences (rather than dismissal, community service, or probation) has quadrupled, resulting in a prison-building boom…

— Michelle Alexander

When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have…

— Maia Szalavitz

“In truth, the U.S.-sponsored international “War on Drugs” is a war on poor people, most of them subsistence farmers caught in a dangerous no-win…

— Gabor Maté

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last…

— Barry McCaffrey

“In the federal system alone there were 90,000 prisoners locked up for drug offenses, compared with about 40,000 for violent crimes. A federal prisoner…

— Piper Kerman

The war on drugs has been the engine of mass incarceration. Drug convictions alone constituted about two-thirds of the increase in the federal prison…

— Michelle Alexander

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since…

— Henry Giroux

Did you know there are more people behind bars for drug offenses in the United States than there are in prison for all crimes…

— Anonymous

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman

“Before we begin our tour of the drug war, it is worthwhile to get a couple of myths out of the way. The first…

— Michelle Alexander

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the prime reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over 2.5 million…

— Piper Kerman

In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests…

— Michelle Alexander