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This 4 page paper makes suggestions for dealing with overcrowding in Arizona's prisons. The culprit seems to be mandatory minimums for drug offenders. Suggestions are made. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is shot accidentally or has a heart attack when police make mistakes in pursuit of illegal drugs. Many who want to stop the war on drugs simply do not
want to see their children, who may be experimenting with substances, go to prison or be denied a college loan. The war on drugs will continue because it serves the
interests of the politicians who play up this attack as something good for society. Many of the people who are brainwashed by the politicians agree with the stance that promotes
cultural, religious and traditional values. At the same time, the reality of the drug war ravages families and good citizens who are simply engaging in a benign but illegal social
behaviors. While the war on drugs has taken its toll on innocent bystanders and family members of those who are sentenced, it also hurts the very institutions designed to protect
citizens. In fact, the war on drugs has crowded correctional systems in the United States, and this is particularly true in the state of Arizona. One study has shown that
the impact of the states sentencing laws is that prison cells are now full, to the tune of millions of dollars per year, while public safety is not enhanced
("Mandatory," 2002). Non-violent offenders in Arizonas prisons comprise half of the states prison population (2002). It has been observed that the "prison system (is) packed with non-violent and low-level offenders,
including substance abusers, disproportionate numbers of people of color and a rapidly growing population of women" (2002). Some of the problematic laws are those that determine sentencing for repeat offenders;
thus, someone with just one prior for drug possession, may get double the normal sentence length if caught selling cocaine for example (2002). Other statistics are telling. Some studies
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