DAY SIXTEEN:

WAR ON DRUGS

( MODERN DAY JIM CROW PT.1 )

 “We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later, data unequivocally illustrates that this war has been a massive failure. It has not only failed to reduce violent crime, but arrest rates—throughout its tenure—have continuously ascended even when crime rates have descended.”



― Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores


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From Brennan Center for Justice


Race, Mass Incarceration, and The Disastrous War



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From Vice


The War on Drugs is Designed to Discriminate



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From The New Yorker


Mass Incarceration, Then and Now


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