the united states
has more people in prison today
than the population of stalin's gulag
when it was at its peak
yes well well done guys will not
uh... the reason
the war on drugs
that's not just conjecture that's not
just speculation on t_v_ some specifics
here
uh... the u_s_ prison population
is seven to ten times
of other industrialized nations
there's one point six six million people
arrested
and two thousand nine for example
because of drugs four out of five of
those arrests were simply for possession
not robbery not burglary or pty bird
but from related violent offense
just possession
eighty percent of people serving a
sentence for possession
or first-time offenders
that number was shocking to me
biggest even if you know with that look
one the main reasons or the main reason
why we have such a large prison
population of the war on drugs
a lot of people will still think
and i've heard this before they go yeah
but that's cuz if those of the hardened
criminals or that it better in jail
if people who are moving the wage and
and so on and so forth that's not the
case
the statistics show eighty percent of
people serving a sentence for possession
or first-time offenders
since the war on drugs started
we spent over a trillion dollars
and seen
no decrease in crime
and no decrease in drug use
