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*6-2000. Washington Post. June 3, 2000. What On Earth? Behind Bars. "At least 8 million people are being held in prisons and jails around the world, ... SOURCES: Worldwatch Institute, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (for U.S. data), Britain's Home Office Research." Link: | ||
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INTRODUCTION. [TopLink] |
This web page is good for exposing the true magnitude of the U.S. drug war. Reproduce freely. Copy any or all of it, and distribute. Or just pass on the page description below.
*The MAJORITY of the 2 million U.S. prisoners are incarcerated due to the drug war! The Drug-War Industrial Complex. The U.S. drug-war inmate MAJORITY is calculated by adding together prisoners who have committed 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.. The USA has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's 8 MILLION prisoners. As of the year 2000 the USA again has the world's highest incarceration rate! It is 5 to 17 times higher than all other Western (long democratic traditions) nations. The US rate is almost 4 times higher than in 1980 at the time of Reagan's election. 6.5 million adults, or 1 in 32 adults in the USA, or 3.1% of adults, were under correctional supervision (in jail, in prison, on probation, or on parole) at yearend 2000. Statistics, references, links, and charts:-----------------------------------------------
2 MILLION U.S. inmates. MAJORITY in due to U.S. DRUG WAR! [TopLink] |
Republican evil, Democrat obedience, corporatist control: The Drug-War Industrial Complex.
The U.S. drug war inmate MAJORITY is shown by adding together drug crimes, crimes to get money for drugs, 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 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 Washington Post, Jan. 18, 1994).
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." BJS report (need free, Adobe Acrobat, reader to
view the pdf file):
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/drc.htm
and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/drrc.pdf
*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)." Washington Post OPED from Drug Policy
Foundation.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99.n731.a13.html
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Some RELATED CHARTS. [TopLink] |
*CHART. Parole violations and drugs. Percentage
of violators returned to prison for failing urine tests, associating with drug
users, etc..
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/charts4.htm
and
http://drugwar.8m.com/charts4.htm
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[pre][code] <font face=Courier New> >____________________________________________ >USA_1997*___________________________________ >Percent_of_parole_violators_in_State_prison. >____________________________________________ >Arrest_or_conviction_for_new_offense___59.5% >DRUG_related_violations._______________13.7% >Absconded_or_failed_to_report._________19.0% >Other_reasons._________________________13.9% >____________________________________________ >23456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 >Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns.__ >________________________</font>[/code][/pre] |
> http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/p99.txt
and > http://drugwar.8m.com/majority.htm and > http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/charts4.htm |
> *Data are from the Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities, 1997. Detail adds to more than 100 percent because some inmates may have had more than 1 reason. |
*PERCENTAGE of federal prison population who are DRUG
OFFENDERS, 1970 to 2000.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/federal.htm and
http://drugwar.8m.com/federal.htm
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[pre][code] <font face=Courier New> >_________________________________________________ >Federal_Prison_Population_Over_Time._____________ >Drug_Offenders_Percentage._______________________ >_________________________________________________ >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______17.0_____ >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_____ >_________________________________________________ >2345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 >Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns._______ >_____________________________</font>[/code][/pre] |
> http://www.bop.gov/fact0598.html#Drug
and > http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/federal.htm and > http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm __ |
> From the link just above: State and
Federal prisoners totaled 1,312,354 in 2000. Jails held another 621,149. |
*U.S. Federal Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. Most
states also have mandatory minimums.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/mandatory.htm and
http://drugwar.8m.com/mandatory.htm
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[pre][code] <font face=Courier New> >________________________________________________ >U.S._Federal_Mandatory_Minimum_Drug_Sentences.__ >Non_violent_Possession_only.____________________ >________________________________________________ >Type_of_Drug.____5_year_sentence________10_years >_________________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 >================================================ >234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 >Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns.______ >____________________________</font>[/code][/pre] |
> http://www.famm.org/about1.htm
and > http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mandatory.htm ___ |
> 1 kilo is 1 kilogram, which equals 1000 grams. > 1 pound equals 454 grams. 1 ounce equals 28.35 grams. |
*U.S. Incarceration Rates Chart. Timeline.
Drug War Incarceration Nation.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/rates.htm and
http://drugwar.8m.com/rates.htm
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[pre][code] <font face=Courier New> >_____________________________________________ >U.S._Incarceration_Rates_CHART._Timeline.____ >Just_Say_NO_to_Drug_War_Incarceration_Nation. >_____________________________________________ >______________________________________U.S.___ >_USA____Incarceration____Prisons____resident_ >______________#Rate_____and_jails__Population >_____________________________________________ >________*1925__#119**___*1925_to_1977________ >________*1928__#144_____incarceration_rates__ >________*1932__#165***__are_estimates._See___ >________*1934__#164**___links_and_endnotes.__ >________*1939__#206***_______________________ >________*1945__#147**___All_the_***peaks_and_ >________*1950__#164***__**valleys_are_shown._ >________*1952__#162**________________________ >________*1961__#179***__And_some_key_years.__ >________*1968__#141**________________________ >________*1969__#146***__1969._Nixon_in_power. >Nixon___*1971__#143_____1971._Nixon_declares_ >________*1972__#140**_________a_War_on_Drugs. >DEA_____*1973__#144_____1973._DEA_begins.____ >________*1974__#153_____1974._Nixon_resigns._ >________*1977__#194__________________________ >_________1978__#202______452,790__223,820,016 >6_Ronald_1980__#220______501,886__228,446,000 >6_Wilson_1981__#241______555,114__230,645,000 >6_Reagan_1982__#262______610,767__232,803,000 >and______1983__#275______645,713__234,868,000 >Nancy____1984__#288______681,282__236,938,000 >Reagan.__1985__#311______742,939__239,109,000 >Holy_____1986__#331______799,171__241,267,000 >War______1987__#352______856,906__243,462,000 >on_______1988__#387______949,659__245,705,000 >Drugs____1989__#434____1,076,670__248,143,000 >_________1990__#457____1,146,401__250,718,000 >_________1991__#480____1,216,664__253,620,000 >_________1992__#504____1,292,347__256,516,000 >_________1993__#527____1,364,881__259,131,000 >_________1994__#562____1,469,947__261,615,000 >_________1995__#598____1,577,842__264,061,000 >_________1996__#614____1,637,928__266,574,000 >_________1997__#645____1,734,538__269,118,000 >_________1998__#665____1,806,808__271,584,000 >_________1999__#690____1,890,837__274,024,000 >_________2000__#699____1,933,503__276,601,000 >Add_in_______________________________________ >138,184__2000__#737____2,071,687__280,930,000 >Juvenile,______#Rate______ALL_____Population. >U.S.___________per______INMATES___U.S._and___ >Territories,___100,000____________Territories >etc..__________population_________+4,329,000_ >_____________________________________________ >234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456 >Fixed_width_Courier_font_lines_up_columns.___ >_________________________</font>[/code][/pre] |
> http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/rates.htm
and > http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm |
*Drug war CHART web pages described. With QUICK LINKS to all of them. New chart pages. Old chart pages. All chart pages.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/chartsfocus.htm
and
http://drugwar.8m.com/chartsfocus.htm
*Incarceration rates. World. 1985-1995. By nation. CHART. U.S. and Russian
rates updated for the year 2000 and 2001. At the change of the millennium, the
USA (aka Babylon), became number one again. Links to 1999, and later, rates for
many nations.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/world.htm and
http://drugwar.8m.com/world.htm
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Drug War = More HARM than drugs. [TopLink] |
The failed drug war causes far more harm than drugs.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -Mussolini
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. 1812.
"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
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PUBLIC DOMAIN. Not copyrighted. Reproduce freely. It is free to use, copy, edit, change, or pass on any, or all parts, of the article. Use it anywhere. [TopLink] |
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CHART PAGES. Full URLs. The CHARTS COMPILATION page has
many of the charts on one page. The "MORE CHARTS" web page has quick links and short descriptions
of all of the chart pages, including new
chart pages not yet listed in all the chart quick
link
boxes. [TopLink]
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CHARTS
COMPILATION. Average
Sentences. Drugs, etc.. |
Inmates
total. USA and Territories.
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