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A 3 page research paper that discusses the effect that the War on Drugs has had on overcrowding in American prisons, with a specific focus on Florida. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced a 5-fold increase, without a "comparable decrease in crime or drug
use" (Moore and Elkavich, 2008, p. S176). Research conducted by Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz indicates that from 1880 to 1980, the US incarcerated 285,000 individuals; however, in just twenty
years, from 1980 to 2000, the prison population rose to over a million inmates (Bobo and Thompson, 2006). Numerous scholars argue that this increase is directly due to the effects
of the "War on Drugs and associated sentencing practices," and is not due to actual changes in the level of crime (Bobo and Thompson, 2006, p. 445). The vast increases
in incarceration are largely due to increases in the arrest of drug offenders, as they account for over half of this increase (Bobo and Thompson, 2006). Furthermore, African American males
are disproportionately represented in this number, as black men constitute 43.3 percent of prison populations, while African Americans represent only 13 percent of the total US population (Bobo and Thompson,
2006). In 1999, close to 2 percent of the black population was incarcerated and roughly 1 in 10 young black men were residents of either state or federal prison (Bobo
and Thompson, 2006). This means that a black male born in the 1990s has a 1-in-3 probability of being incarcerated (Bobo and Thompson, 2006). Florida fits into the
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