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New Report Find One Million Americans Incarcerated
Posted by FoM on March 26, 1999 at 11:20:59 PT
This must stop!
Source: DRC Net
A report released March 25th by the Justice Policy Institute entitled "America's One Million Nonviolent Prisoners" found some startling facts about whom America is imprisoning. Increasingly those incarcerated are serving time for non-violent, primarily drug related offenses.
According to the report, racial disparities in who gets incarcerated continues to grow while female prisoners continue to grow at the fastest rate. Vincent Schiraldi, who co-author of the report, spoke at a press conference today and told the reporters, "People think prisons are being built and sentencing laws are being passed to keep the Jack the Rippers of the world off the street, but increasingly, those prisons are being filled with 'the gang that couldn't shoot straight.'" What does anyone feel about incarcerating drug users? I don't think it helps anything even society!http://www.cjcj.org/jpi/onemillion.html 
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