News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Crime & Police : Drugs : U.S. Government
Locked Up in Land of the Free. By Scott Shane
01 Jun 2003
Submitted by: Chuck D'Adamo Publisher:
Baltimore Sun (6/1/03)
With more than 2 million people locked up in American jails and prisons, the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its citizens behind bars than any country in the world. A major cause: the "war on drugs" with the related disproportionate numbers of African-Americans and Latinos imprisoned for such offences. Scott Shane reports.
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