War On Drugs Biggest Corporate Welfare Program In History: Obama Wants $25.6 Billion For Drug War
The Drug War And Mass Incarceration By The Numbers
The Huffington Post | By Matt Sledge Posted: 04/08/2013 7:34 am EDT | Updated: 04/08/2013 1:24 pm EDT
NEW YORK — Despite an increased emphasis on treatment and prevention programs in recent years, the Obama administration in its 2013 budget still requested $25.6 billion in federal spending on the drug war. Of that, $15 billion would go to law enforcement, interdiction and international efforts.
The pro-reform Drug Policy Alliance estimates that when you combine state and local spending on everything from drug-related arrests to prison, the total cost adds up to at least $51 billion per year. Over four decades, the group says, American taxpayers have dished out $1 trillion on the drug war.
What all that money has helped produce — aside from unchanged drug addiction rates — is the world’s highest incarceration rate. According to the Sentencing Project, 2.2 million Americans are in prison or jail.
More than half of federal prisoners are incarcerated for drug crimes in 2010,according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and that number has only just dipped below 50 percent in 2011. Despite more relaxed attitudes among the public at large toward non-violent offenses like marijuana use, the number of people in federal prison for drug offenses spiked from 74,276 in 2000 to 97,472 in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones — even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs.
A chart produced by the American Civil Liberties Union shows just how staggeringly large the US prison population has grown.
CORRECTION: This piece has been changed to make clear the drop in the percentage of federal prisoners in custody for drug crimes from 2010 to 2011.
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In UK, police informants are paid in drugs. Junkies get full rate DLA to pay for their smack. WAR on drugs is a lie. Very profitable for the elite cabal though!
Yes the war on drugs really only affects the end user, but these stats show just how much people of color are more then likely to be jailed, mainly because the rift of other color is still strong among officials, you want to change bigotry? Change the method of education for these officials.
Just like military brainwashing troops to think of the enemy as non human, I believe bigotry is only alive and well because of the statistics that keep going around talking , this color does this and that color does that, but in reality….they are localized, but treated as nation wide.
So if a black family moves to a predominantly white area….the cops in that area get new training of brainwashing, statics this and statistics that, and voila bigotry reborn.
It’s not really us….it’s the training process of the officals, when a domino falls it takes more with it.
Brainwashed officals on the premis of statistics jail non violent, then the prison system segregates them further, when released, the same officals see the pre perp and harass them again looking and lieing for something to arrest again.
How would you feel being harassed like that, it’s a vicious circle that never stops, but this same situation happens to more then just blacks……
Divide and conquer is the premiss, the brainwashed officals is the other, but at the core is the teachers of these officals, they like any school teacher have a coriculum they have to abide by.
There’s the real problem…..you would think having a black pres. This would change….but it hasn’t and obamba hasn’t doen a single thing, it’s hard to arrest a governing body when they are the ones who make the rules to protect their asses.
We need real change not hype.
Our federal government cia are the biggest drug dealers in the world at 1 trillion dollars per year in profits just on sales alone.
Put the druggie losers in prison where they belong. The money spent on prisons is very small compared to all other government spending.
You say put people in prison for victimless crimes that directly violates the U.S. Constitution; Put the druggie losers in prison where they belong. And I say; drug dealers say exactly what you just wrote, they say that to keep the price of there product as high as possible. Are you a parrot regurgitating drug dealer quote’s or are you a drug dealer? Maybe your financially assisted by a government drug enforcement job? Rico criminals want the price to be criminally inflated and highly illegal to feed the prison industrial complex, judges, lawyers, congress, the house cia fbi are all on the take. It’s all one big scam, a sociopath driven scheme of problem reaction solution.