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Justice For None: How the Drug War Broke the Legal System

By The Washington Post

Book information

Publisher
Diversion Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781682303177
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4913867 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 11:47:22
NonfictionPOL014000POL029000POL040000Politics

Description

When tough-on-crime laws passed 30 years ago during an era of drug-fueled violence, they were supported across the political spectrum. The subsequent "war on drugs" sent non-violent offenders to prison for decades and, in some cases, life. As a result, the nation's prison and jail population today is 2.3 million, more than quadruple the number that were incarcerated in 1980. One in 100 adults is behind bars in America. As many as 100 million American adults now have criminal records, and a disproportionate number of those are men of color. Washington Post reporters, in a series of revealing and wrenching stories throughout 2015, unlocked the prison gates and allowed readers to experience the human devastation wrought by sentencing policies now under scrutiny.

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