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With less than 5% of world population the USA has over 2.3 million of 9.2 million world prisoners! The majority of U.S. inmates are in due to the drug war.
Most Republican leaders oppose cheap universal healthcare. 45,000 uninsured Americans die each year due to lack of health insurance.
Majority of U.S. prisoners are in due to drug war. Over 2.3 million inmates. Drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc.. USA has highest incarceration rate. The corporatist Drug-War Industrial Complex. Drug War concentration camps for "undesirables." With Nazi parallels. See also:
Ramblings: Mechanism of fascism in the USA. Incarceration NRA. 
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*Introduction to Drug War. Charts, banners.

*Length of sentences causes the huge U.S. incarceration rate.
*MAJORITY of inmates in USA in due to Drug War.

*Some reference CHARTS:

*Drug War = More HARM than drugs.

*Quick links to more drug war charts. And more info.


Introduction. [TopLink]

The True Evil Empire: 

*Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. U.S. CHARTS. Non-violent possession only. Drug War concentration camps for "undesirables." Sentences that usually do not allow parole until at least around 80% of the sentence served. Federal laws, and most states, have mandatory minimums. New York Times: Length of sentences causes the huge U.S. inmate count that dwarfs other nations. 
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mandatory.htm

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http://november.org/graphs/Corrections.gif
http://november.org/graphs
http://gallery.marihemp.com/charts
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Criminal_justice_diagrams


USA: Over 7.2 million persons on probation or parole, or incarcerated in jail or prison, at yearend 2006. About 3.2% of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corr2.htm 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:US_correctional_population_timeline.gif

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*Graph 3 below is one of many from a July 2000 report. Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug Offenders in the United States.
http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/poor/pp.html



See also: http://corporatism.tripod.com/world.htm
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.html

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Length of sentences causes the huge U.S. incarceration rate. [TopLink]

American Exception. Inmate Count in US Dwarfs Other Nations'.
New York Times. Apr 22, 2008. Page 1, Section A, Front Page.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n417/a04.html
 
From the New York Times article (emphasis added):

Still, it is the length of sentences that truly distinguishes American prison policy. Indeed, the mere number of sentences imposed here would not place the United States at the top of the incarceration lists. If lists were compiled based on annual admissions to prison per capita, several European countries would outpace the United States. But American prison stays are much longer, so the total incarceration rate is higher. ... "Rises and falls in Canada's crime rate have closely paralleled America's for 40 years," Mr. Tonry wrote last year. "But its imprisonment rate has remained stable."


*Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. U.S. CHARTS. Non-violent possession only. Drug War concentration camps for "undesirables." Sentences that usually do not allow parole until at least around 80% of the sentence served. Federal laws, and most states, have mandatory minimums. New York Times: Length of sentences causes the huge U.S. inmate count that dwarfs other nations. 2.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mandatory.htm

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U.S. prison gulags! MAJORITY are in due to U.S. DRUG WAR! References and links. [TopLink]


Tricky Dick Nixon (above) has won his drug war! Corporatist Republicrat Dictatorship! A Nixonian "enemies list" that almost everyone is on at some time.

Republican evil, Democrat complicity, corporatist control: The Drug-War Industrial Complex.

In 1971 Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs."

The U.S. drug war inmate MAJORITY is shown by adding together drug crimes, crimes to get money for drugs, drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc..


"Nearly one in four persons (23.7%) imprisoned in the United States is currently imprisoned for a drug offense. The number of persons behind bars for drug offenses (458,131) is roughly the same as the entire prison and jail population in 1980 (474,368)." From the July 2000 report, "Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug Offenders in the United States."
http://www.cjcj.org/drug/exsumm.html and
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/index.html#distortion and
http://drcnet.org/wol/147.html#risingnumbers

*Number and percentage of prisoners whose primary and/or most serious crime was a drug offense. Based on federal estimates of state and federal drug prisoners. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. Chart from 1980 on. 8% in 1980. 23% in 1998.
http://www.motherjones.com/prisons/drug.txt and
http://www.motherjones.com/prisons/data_NATIONAL_drug.html

*In addition, the Jan. 18, 1994 Washington Post reported: "The FBI has reported that almost one-third of people convicted of robbery and burglary, and more than one-quarter of people convicted of larceny, committed their crimes to get money for drugs. Moreover, 6.5 percent of the murders in the United States in 1990 occurred in narcotics-related circumstances" The Nov. 2, 1995 Chicago Tribune reported: "The latest Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS] survey of U.S. prison inmates in 1991 found that 27 percent of robbers admitted they committed crimes to buy drugs; 30 percent of burglars said so, and 5 percent of convicted murderers did."
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/drc.htm and;
To view the BJS report in pdf form you will need the free Adobe Acrobat reader:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/drrc.pdf --See Table 3.

"According to the 1991 joint survey of Federal and State prison inmates, an estimated 17 percent of State prisoners and 10 percent of Federal prisoners reported committing their offense to get money to buy drugs; of those incarcerated for robbery, 27 percent of State prisoners and 27 percent of Federal prisoners admitted committing their offense to get money to buy drugs (see table 3). In 1997, 19 percent of State prisoners and 16 percent of Federal inmates said that they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs. These numbers represent a slight increase from the 1991 figures.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/crime/index.html#table3

*7-1999. USA. War Won't Solve the Drug Problem. "In 1988, just over half of the murders in the city [New York City] were 'drug-related.' But once the researchers examined the circumstances of the murders, they discovered that the clear majority, 74 percent, were results of the drug trade, not drug use (14 percent) or the need to get money for drugs (4 percent)." July 1999 Washington Post op-ed from Drug Policy Foundation. Emphasis added.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n731.a13.html

"The percentage of homicides thought to be drug-related reflects both the frequency of such crimes as well as how the relationship is specified. 'What proportion of homicides is drug-related?' This simple question is difficult to answer. The FBI's definition is specific but limited. Cities or police departments may have broader but inconsistent definitions. For offenses not as reliably reported or as thoroughly investigated as homicides, the question is even more difficult because complete information is not systematically available at the national level for any definition of 'drug-related.' "
See the chart below.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/crime/index.html#whystatistics
Drug-related homicide rates as defined using differing criteria in four cities, 1990

Percentage drug-related
City 1 City 2 City 3 City 4
Definitional criteria 36.0% 25.7% 39.0% 44.6%
Committed during commission of a narcotics felony
x x x
Dispute between dealers
x x
Offender under the influence of drugs

x
Victim under the influence of drugs x
x
Source: Data were obtained by the ONDCP Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse.




*Parole violations and drugs. 16.1% is the percentage of violators returned to state prisons in 1997 for possession of drugs, failing drug tests, avoiding alcohol or drug treatment, etc.. Info is from October 2001 Bureau of Justice Statistics report.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/11_05_02parole.cfm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/tsp00.pdf --see Table 21.

*June 2003. Federal judge resigns, calling judicial system unjust. Associated Press story, National Public Radio interview, and Judge John S. Martin's statement. "The result, he said, is a slew of lengthy prison sentences for low-level drug dealers 'who society failed at every step.' ... While many judges have criticized sentencing guidelines, it is unusual for a judge to publicly cite the frustrations of the job in stepping down." -June 25 2003 AP story.
http://www.famm.org/si_federal_sentencing_judge_martinoped_06_24_03.htm

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Some reference CHARTS. [TopLink]

[TopLink]

U.S. Federal Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences.
For non-violent possession. Sentences double if prior felony drug convictions.
For second-tier offenses: Mandatory life sentence if 2 prior felony drug convictions.
Most states also have mandatory minimums of various kinds.
_________________First_tier.________Second_tier.
________________________________________________
_________________5_year_sentence________10_years
Type_of_Drug.____without_parole._______No_parole
________________________________________________
LSD______________1_gram._10_to_20_______10_grams
_________________doses_if_carrier_______________
_________________weight_included._______________
________________________________________________
Marijuana________100_plants__________1000_plants
_________________or_100_kilos._____or_1000_kilos
________________________________________________
Crack_cocaine____5_grams._1_to_10_______50_grams
_________________day_supply_for_________________
_________________heavy_user.____________________
________________________________________________
Powder_cocaine___500_grams_______________5_kilos
________________________________________________
Heroin___________100_grams________________1_kilo
________________________________________________
Methamphetamine__5_grams._3_to_10_______50_grams
_________________day_supply_for_________________
_________________heavy_user.____________________
________________________________________________
PCP______________10_grams______________100_grams
________________________________________________
The_Courier_New_font_lines_up_the_columns.______
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mandatory.htm mirror page.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/mandatory.htm mirror page.
http://www.famm.org/si_federal_sentencing.htm and
http://www.famm.org/pdfs/Primer.pdf and
http://www.famm.org/pdfs/fedbroch2.pdf and
http://www.bop.gov/about/facts.jsp and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/nra.htm __
Use the free Adobe Reader to view the pdf file.
1 kilo is equal to 2.2 pounds.
1 kilo is 1 kilogram, which equals 1000 grams.
1 pound equals 454 grams. 1 ounce equals 28.35 grams.
A gram roughly equals a single packet of sweetener.
1 gram of powder cocaine is turned into 0.89 grams of crack.
Per capita use of crack is higher among whites than blacks.

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USA. Percentage of federal prison population who are
drug offenders. Timeline. 1970 onwards.
___________________________________________________
Year_____Total_____Total______Total______Percentage
_______sentenced___sentenced__sentenced__of________
_________and_______pop._______drug_______sentenced_
_____unsentenced______________offenders__prisoners_
______population_________________________who_are___
_________________________________________drug______
_________________________________________offenders_
___________________________________________________
1970______21,266___20,686_____3,384______16.3%
1971______20,891___20,529_____3,495______17__
1972______22,090___20,729_____3,523______16.9
1973______23,336___22,038_____5,652______25.6
1974______23,690___21,769_____6,203______28.4
1975______23,566___20,692_____5,540______26.7
1976______27,033___24,135_____6,425______26.6
1977______29,877___25,673_____6,743______26.2
1978______27,674___23,501_____5,981______25.4
1979______24,810___21,539_____5,468______25.3
1980______24,252___19,023_____4,749______24.9
1981______26,195___19,765_____5,076______25.6
1982______28,133___20,938_____5,518______26.3
1983______30,214___26,027_____7,201______27.6
1984______32,317___27,622_____8,152______29.5
1985______36,042___27,623_____9,491______34.3
1986______37,542___30,104____11,344______37.7
1987______41,609___33,246____13,897______41.8
1988______41,342___33,758____15,087______44.7
1989______47,568___37,758____18,852______49.9
1990______54,613___46,575____24,297______52.2
1991______61,026___52,176____29,667______56.9
1992______67,768___59,516____35,398______59.5
1993______76,531___68,183____41,393______60.7
1994______82,269___73,958____45,367______61.3
1995______85,865___76,947____46,669______60.7
1996______89,672___80,872____49,096______60.7
1997______95,513___87,294____52,059______59.6
1998_____104,507___95,323____55,984______58.7
1999_____115,024__104,500____60,399______57.8
2000_____123,141__112,329____63,898______56.9
2001_____131,419__120,829____67,037______55.5
2002_____139,183__128,090____70,009______54.7
2003_____148,731__137,536____75,801______55.1
2004_____154,706__143,864____77,867______54.1
_____________________________________________
The_Courier_New_font_lines_up_the_columns.___
"Note: These data represent prisoners housed in Federal
Bureau of Prisons facilities; prisoners housed in contract
facilities are not included. Data for 1970-76 are for June 30;
beginning in 1977, data are for September 30."
The 2004 stats in the chart are for November 4.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/federal.htm mirror page.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/federal.htm mirror page.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ind/DRUGS.Prisoners.Federal.2.html
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t657.pdf and
http://www.bop.gov/news/weekly_report.jsp Weekly stats.
http://www.bop.gov/about/facts.jsp Quick facts.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm __
From the link just above: State and Federal prisoners
totaled 1,421,911 in 2004. Jails held another 713,990.
The "quick facts" link has detailed stats on race, gender,
ethnicity, offenses, sentences, nationality, total inmates, etc..

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CHART. USA. Parole violations and drugs.
Reasons for revocation among parole violators in State
prison, for all States, 1997.* Percentage of violators
returned to state prisons for possession of drugs, failing
drug tests, avoiding alcohol or drug treatment, etc.. 

__________________________________________________________
Reason_for_revocation___________________________All_States
_________________________________________________________
Arrest/conviction_for_new_offense____________________69.9%
__________________________________________________________
Drug_related_violations______________________________16.1%
_Positive_test_for_drug_use___________________________7.9
_Possession_of_drug(s)________________________________6.6
_Failure_to_report_for_drug_testing___________________2.3
_Failure_to_report_for_alcohol_or_drug_treatment______1.7
_________________________________________________________
Absconders___________________________________________22.3%
_Failure_to_report/absconded_________________________18.6
_Left_jurisdiction_without_permission_________________5.6
_________________________________________________________
Other_reasons________________________________________17.8%
_Failure_to_report_for_counseling_____________________2.4
_Failure_to_maintain_employment_______________________1.2
_Failure_to_meet_financial_obligations________________2.3
_Maintained_contact_with_known_offenders______________1.2
_Possession_of_gun(s)_________________________________3.5
_________________________________________________________
Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns._______________
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/charts4.htm mirror.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/charts4.htm mirror page.
http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/11_05_02parole.cfm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/tsp00.pdf --see Table 21.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/majority.htm __
*Note: Data are from the Survey of Inmates in State Adult
Correctional Facilities, 1997. Excludes 37,440 parole
violators who reported that their parole had not been
revoked. Detail adds to more than 100% because some
inmates may have had more than 1 violation of parole.

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USA. Almost 7.1 million adults were under correctional
supervision (jail, prison, parole, probation) at yearend 2005.
That's 1 in 32 adults, or
almost 3.2% of the USA's total adult population.
At yearend 2003 TEXAS led
with 4.6% of its adults. See end of chart.
_______________________________________________________
______Probation__Jail_______Prison___Parole___Total____
_______________________________________________________
1975_________________________________143,164___________
1976_________________________________147,539___________
1977____816,525_____________285,486__173,632___________
1978____899,305__158,394____294,396__177,847__1,529,900
1979__1,080,385_____________301,470__217,697___________
1980__1,118,097__183,988____319,598__220,438__1,842,100
1981__1,225,934__196,785____360,029__225,539__2,008,300
1982__1,357,264__209,582____402,914__224,604__2,194,400
1983__1,582,947__223,551____423,898__246,440__2,476,800
1984__1,740,948__234,500____448,264__266,992__2,690,700
1985__1,968,712__256,615____487,593__300,203__3,013,100
1986__2,114,621__274,444____526,436__325,638__3,241,100
1987__2,247,158__295,873____562,814__355,505__3,461,400
1988__2,356,483__343,569____607,766__407,977__3,715,800
1989__2,522,125__395,553____683,367__456,803__4,057,800
1990__2,670,234__405,320____743,382__531,407__4,350,300
1991__2,728,472__426,479____792,535__590,442__4,537,900
1992__2,811,611__444,584____850,566__658,601__4,765,400
1993__2,903,061__459,804____909,381__676,100__4,948,300
1994__2,981,022__486,474____990,147__690,371__5,148,000
1995__3,077,861__507,044__1,078,542__679,421__5,342,900
1996__3,164,996__518,492__1,127,528__679,733__5,490,700
1997__3,296,513__567,079__1,176,564__694,787__5,734,900
1998__3,670,441__592,462__1,224,469__696,385__6,134,200
1999__3,779,922__605,943__1,287,172__714,457__6,340,800
2000__3,826,209__621,149__1,316,333__723,898__6,445,100
2001__3,931,731__631,240__1,330,007__732,333__6,581,700
2002__4,024,067__665,475__1,367,547__750,934__6,758,800
2003__4,120,012__691,301__1,390,279__769,925__6,924,500
2004__4,143,466__713,990__1,421,911__771,852__6,995,300
2005__4,162,536__747,529__1,446,269__784,408__7,056,000
_______________________________________________________
______Probation__Jail_____Prison_____Parole___Total____
_______________________________________________________
The_Courier_New_font_lines_up_the_columns._____________
Yearly totals are rounded off to nearest hundred. There are
state and federal prisons. Jails are local and county lockups.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/correct.htm mirror page.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/correct.htm mirror page.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corr2.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/rates.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/ratesusa.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ppus05.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pripropr.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ppus05.pdf and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim05.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pjim05pr.htm and
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html Population. Adult:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/censusstatistic/a/latestpopcounts.htm
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/ppus03pr.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ppus03.htm -2003 state rates.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/sheets/ppus03.zip -Spreadsheets.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ppus03.pdf -See Table 8.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/ppus03.txt ___
Use the free Adobe Reader for the pdf files.
Unzip the spreadsheets and then use MS Excel, etc..
Quote from the 2 links just above. Emphasis added:
"Texas led the Nation at yearend 2003
with 4,609 adults under correctional supervision per
100,000 adult State residents, followed by Washington 
State (4,350), and Delaware (4,235) (table 8)."
That's 4.6% of Texas adults imprisoned, on probation, or on parole!
Calculations from Table 8 show that 1337 Texas adults
out of 100,000 are in prison or jail.
That's 1.34% of Texas adults imprisoned!

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U.S. Incarceration Rates Timeline.
Number of prison and jail inmates per 100,000 population.
Midyear population. Rates slightly lower if yearend population.
TEXAS rates at the chart end:
1014 in 1999. 966 in 2001.
That is 1% of Texans imprisoned!
1925 to 1977 incarceration rates are estimates based on prison rates.
1925 to 1977 jail rates are estimated to be 50% of prison rates.
The 2 rates are added together to get the 1925-77 incarceration rate.
High*** and low** rates are shown for 1925-77. See endnotes.
  Year Incarceration
Rate.		 Total
inmates
in prisons
and jails.		 USA. Total
Midyear
Population.








Some key years.
1968. Nixon elected.
1969. Nixon in power.
1971. Nixon declares
        a War on Drugs.
1973. DEA begins.
1974. Nixon resigns.


6 Ronald
6 Wilson
6 Reagan 666
and
Nancy Reagan.
Their
"Just Say NO" ,
Holy War on Drugs.
The Beast. :)
Fascism with a
smiley face...		 1925
1928
1932
1934
1939
1945
1950
1952
1961
1968
1969
1971
1972
1973
1974
1977
1978
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005		 119**
144
165***
164**
206***
147**
164***
162**
179***
141**
146***
143
140**
144
153
194
203
220
241
263
276
288
312
332
353
388
435
458
480
503
524
558
595
610
639
658
678
686
688
707
718
729
742















452,790
501,886
555,114
610,767
645,713
681,282
742,939
799,171
856,906
949,659
1,076,670
1,146,401
1,216,664
1,292,347
1,364,881
1,469,947
1,585,586
1,646,020
1,743,643
1,816,931
1,893,115
1,937,482
1,961,247
2,033,022
2,085,620
2,135,901
2,193,798















222,585,000
227,726,463
229,966,237
232,187,835
234,307,207
236,348,292
238,466,283
240,650,755
242,803,533
245,021,414
247,341,697
250,131,894
253,492,503
256,894,189
260,255,352
263,435,673
266,557,091
269,667,391
272,911,760
276,115,288
279,294,713
282,338,631
285,023,886
287,675,526
290,342,554
293,027,571
295,734,134
Add in
126,561
inmates
(Juvenile,
U.S. Territories,
etc.) to get
total inmates.		     +126,561 +4,327,569
   
2005 773 2,320,359 300,061,703
  Total
incarceration
rate per
100,000
population.		 Total
inmates in
U.S.A.
and its
Territories		 Total
population
of U.S.A.
and its
Territories
(4,327,569).
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/rates.htm mirror page.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/rates.htm mirror page.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pripropr.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p05.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/usaterr.htm and
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html Population.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim99.htm 1999 USA.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim99.pdf -1999 USA
state-by-state incarceration rates chart is Table 11.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim01.htm -2001 links.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim01.pdf -2001 USA
state-by-state incarceration rates chart is Table 16.
2001 Federal rate of 49 can be calculated from Table 1.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/sheets/pjim01.zip -2001 USA
spreadsheets. See tables 1 and 16. Use MS Excel, etc..
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/usa.html state
rates map. Latest. Click any U.S. state name on the map.
The last link above is a clickable U.S. map of
state-by-state incarceration rates.
The rates are for inmates per 100,000 state population.
Note that no state in the USA has a rate less than 200.
Bush was governor of Texas 1994-2000. His legacy:
Louisiana (1025) and TEXAS (1014)
(under Bush) had the highest rates in 1999.
In 2001 (see the 4 links just above) it was
Louisiana (1013) and TEXAS (966)
that again had the highest incarceration rates with
 1% of their populations imprisoned.
 2001 Federal incarceration rate of 49 was NOT 
added in to those numbers. In the USA it costs 
around $25,000 average per year for each inmate. 
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS): "At midyear 2005,
nearly 4.7 percent of black males were in prison
or jail, compared to 1.9 percent of Hispanic males,
and 0.7 percent of white males. Among males in
their late 20s, nearly 12 percent of black males,
compared to 3.9 percent of Hispanic males and
1.7 percent of white males, were incarcerated"
Above BJS quote is from the link below:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pjim05pr.htm __
*1925 to 1977 incarceration rates are estimates
based on prison rates from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics document NCJ 102494, State and
Federal Prisoners, 1925-85. Info is also in
NCJ 85861. The 1925-1977 jail rates are
estimated as 50% of prison rates. Prison rate plus
jail rate equals total incarceration rate. Sources:
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t6282004.pdf
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/wk1/t6282004.wk1
http://www.ncjrs.gov/bjsonlineorders/feepubs.html
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/paperonly.htm
http://www.monthlyreview.org/0701fig1.pdf
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6001.pdf
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6002.pdf 
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6003.pdf
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/govpubs/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t6004.pdf 

 


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Drug War = More HARM than drugs. [TopLink]

The failed drug war causes far more harm than drugs.

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." ~ An anonymous analysis of Benito Mussolini's fascism in Italy.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/texas.htm Texas is an evil fundamentalist example today. ;)

The U.S. Drug-war Industrial Complex causes the world's highest incarceration rate; years wasted in brutal prisons; broken, one-parent families; many kids orphaned; bloody drug-trade turf wars; high violent crime rates relative to all other Western nations; many property crimes to get money for drugs (that are expensive due to the drug war); lower inner city property values; insane prison, court, and police spending; spending cut from education and healthcare; violent criminals released early to keep in non-violent drug offenders with longer mandatory minimum sentences; many unnecessary deaths from impure drugs; racist drug law enforcement and sentencing; racial profiling; private prisons for profits; powerful prison guard PACs supporting ever more prisons; rampant corruption; drug-funded, CIA-aided, death squads throughout Latin America for decades; Bill of Rights being shredded in the USA ...

Expanding interlocking corporate-government control by playing both sides of the Drug War: Private prison corporations; prison guard and police unions; money-laundering banks; paramilitary drug-funded death squads controlled by the wealthy; military-paramilitary-police underground cooperation; selective drug law enforcement concentrating on political, university, and union organizers; Nixon's COINTELPRO-type control of society; 1000+ station, corporate-mega-media nationwide hate-radio drug warriors such as ClearChannel creating ever more drug war hysteria; politicians and judges dependant on FoxNews and ClearChannel-type corporate campaign donations and airtime; etc., etc..

Corporate rulers love drug wars and any increase in police, prison and intelligence assets that can be used to keep people down. The USA needs multi-party proportional representation, electoral reform, breakups of mega-media, an increase in true democracy, and an end of the one-party pseudo-democracy called Republicrat corporatist control.

"The only difference between Bush and Gore is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock at the door."
--Ralph Nader (Green Party presidential candidate. Election year 2000 quote).

"The great mass of Latin American citizens have no illusion -- unlike their US neighbors -- that governments are sincerely fighting a war on drugs. The consensus-manufacturing machines broke in the latter part of the 20th century: the violence, corruption, collusion and dishonesty by State, media, banking and other powerful sectors are all too clear to the great majority of Latin Americans."
--Al Giordano, publisher of NarcoNews.com
http://www.narconews.com

The U.S. Democrat Party is a fully-owned subsidiary of corporate America just like the U.S. Republican Party.

"An honest politician is one who, when he's bought, stays bought."
--Simon Cameron. 19th Century Pennsylvania Republican political boss.

Until there is a legal separation between corporations and the state the insane drug war may not end in the USA. A constitutional separation as strong as the First Amendment separation between church and state is needed.

"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
--Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1816.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1320.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/corporatism.htm - Corporatism quotes.

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."
--President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (One Thousand Americans, George Seldes, page 5.)
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas3.htm

Quotes. Corporatism.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/corporatism.htm

Quotes. Revolutionary.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/change.htm

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Quick links to more drug war charts. And more info. [TopLink]